Celeron

[GuruX]

AMD now has the Sempron processor aimed at the value market. It currently swamps the Celeron, yet costs about the same (or less).

[Lamba]

The Celeron is, and always was, the low-end version of the P4. In short, NO.
One thing I don't like about Intel processors is their backward compatibility - yes, I DON'T like it. In the end, all you get is a very huge set of instructions, most of them obsolete, inefficient, etc. Basically, it's just about as big an insult to RISC as possible. :[ In the end, AMD's decision to support x86 instructions makes their instruction set almost as bad. :/