AMD roadmaps revealed till 2012

During the Financial Analyst Day, AMD has unveiled several of the roadmaps for the years to come. Because of the increasing competition in the notebook area, as well as the increasing demand for netbooks, AMD will have to work really hard to keep its market share.

The "Puma" platform, with the "Griffin" CPU's, will be replaced in 2009 by the "Tigris" platform, with its "Caspian" processors. The socket S1g2 will be changed to S1g3, a transition that is parallel to that of the desktop-socket, which will change from AM2+ to AM3. The "Caspian" processors will be the first 45nm AMD notebook processors. Apart from the several "Tigris" models, the company will also launch its "Congo" platform with the "Conesus" processor, as well as the "Yukon" platform with the single core "Huron" processor to serve the netbook market.

The current RS780M chipset will be moved to "Congo" in the ultraportable segment. The southbridge will be slightly improved and renamed SB710. The same SB710 will also be used in the "Tigris" platform, combined with an improved RS880M chipset.

In 2010, AMD's first quadcore notebook will appear, it will be part of the 'Danube' platform and the processors will be codenamed 'Champlain'. DDR3 memory will also be introduced in AMD's notebooks. "Nile" will form a compact platform for the dualcore "Geneva" processors, also sporting the DDR3 memory support. The image above shows the roadmap for AMD's processors. In 2011, they will transit the production to 32 nm for all processors. Another interesting thing is that AMD has the same "Liano" processor planned for both desktops and notebooks. The "Orochi" will be AMD's high-end processor, possibly featuring eight cores and over 8 MB cache.

Source: Computerbase