We just completed our 2010 Financial Analyst Day here at our headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. Lots of good stuff today, including the first public demo of our “Bulldozer” CPU, an update on the schedule for our first AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) and, of course, the latest additions to our public roadmaps.

If you track our roadmap closely each year you may notice something different this time – no more platform code names are listed. Why? Because we heard you loud and clear: “AMD, you have way too many code names.” While our strategy of delivering winning platforms has not changed, you will see that we have simplified our roadmaps to make it more clear which markets and form factors our CPUs and APUs will address.

Server … All “Bulldozer”, all the time

That’s right, by the end of 2012, every new server CPU we bring to market will be based on our new “Bulldozer” architecture. “Bulldozer” will power multiple platforms designed to give server buyers what they keep asking for: more threads, more memory and the best performance-per-watt, per-dollar available.

You read it right; the “Terramar” CPU, planned for release in 2012, will indeed scale to 20 cores in our mainstream, 2- and 4-processor server platforms. The cloud’s new best friend will be “Sepang,” planned for release in 2012. “Sepang” is planned to scale up to 10 cores and is targeted at low-cost, low-power 1- and 2-way platforms.

Velocity goal: the best APUs every year

Velocity is the term Rick Bergman introduced last year to signal the new AMD Fusion APU design methodology and product introduction cadence. AMD Velocity builds on AMD’s already established annual GPU design cycle to achieve a faster pace of innovation than AMD previously achieved with a CPU-only development focus. This quicker pace is in keeping with an overall faster pace of consumer innovation, where new features and new use cases abound.  The goal of Velocity is clear, compelling platform differentiation for AMD, and the delivery of the best APU on the market every year.

Below are our client roadmaps for 2011 and 2012. To summarize, here’s what’s new for 2012:

• We’ll bring our “Bulldozer” CPU cores into  APUs with “Trinity,” targeted for both the mainstream and performance notebook markets. We will also offer a “Trinity” APU for mainstream desktop;
• For the essential, netbook and tablet markets we introduce our “Krishna” and “Wichita” APUs with enhanced “Bobcat” CPU cores. These will be our first APUs based on 28nm process technology. “Krishna” APUs are scheduled to be available for small form-factor and all-in-One (AIO) desktop platforms in 2012;
• Also in 2012, we plan to continue offering high-performance desktop CPUs for the enthusiast market with the “Bulldozer” core-based “Komodo” CPU.

As always, more details will come as we get closer to the launch of these products but we wanted to give you a high-level view of the CPU and APU pipeline that our world-class design teams are working on today. But of course, let’s not forget, you don’t have to wait until 2012 for AMD Fusion APUs. As Rick Bergman said earlier today, AMD Fusion is here and shipping to our OEM customers. Look for it on shelves early next year in mainstream and ultrathin notebooks and netbooks, as well as AIO and small form factor desktops.

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