Leveranciers en distributeurs hebben op de CeBIT te horen gekregen dat de Athlon 600 komende tijd moeilijk verkrijgbaar zal zijn. Volgens The Register is dit bewijs dat AMD de produktie van de Athlon 600 in april stop zal zetten. Verder suggereert The Register dat AMD sneller over zal stappen op Socket A:
On the stand itself, executives were showing the Socket A form factor and the Thunderbird chip to journalists, who were, however, not allowed to take photographs of the parts. That suggests that AMD may displace the Slot A cartridge for its Socket A model sooner than expected.One PC vendor at the show said he was surprised that AMD was moving to cut prices of the Athlon by as much as 60 per cent. But, he added, the drought of Intel Coppermine Pentium IIIs has now ended, and he and others were beginning to receive "more than sufficient" quantities of the chips.
Kryotech, ook aanwezig op AMD's stand, zou gezegd hebben dat een 2GHz systeem eind dit jaar beschikbaar komt.