intel product line vs amd questions (Is duron a separate core?)

[ScorpioIlya]

I'm trying to do a paper for the only business class in my compsci major....and I am doing it on intel and amd product lines for desktops......I know that intel has 1 assembly line and starts with a xeon, that after taking out SMP, hyperthreading, a bunch of l3 and l2 cache, and dropping the bus/clock speed a bit, ends up as a horrible celeron...but does AMD do the same thing with Athlon and Duron, or is Duron a totally separate core?

Do you guys think there's any benefit of this, if this is true....I mean is duron optimized for different things........because Intel's approach of 'gradual castration' seems pretty good to me, from a business perspective (they have 1 assembly line, and performance bin and castrate away the features to weed the celery from the Xeon DP).

[confus-ed]

Can't answer you for sure... I think they were seperate but the ones available now are mini xp chips ... AMD revives Duron line refers

This also raises the point of what you might be comparing & on a business perspective, & I'd say its not so clever neutering chips if folks know that's what you do ! but I can well see why its appealing to only have one production process...