The company wants to position AMD LIano, its first product Fusion, as part of the core segment platform, code-named Sabine. Sabine platform to replace the platform Danube somewhere in 2011. Reference design LIano called Torpedo, and, of course, users can expect that this processor will be able to justify such an ambitious name.

Release of the new platform will be held no earlier than the second quarter of 2011, so until LIano still quite far away. The year before, in the second quarter of 2010, AMD plans to release its platform Danube, in which should include an update of two-and quad-core AMD processors on the architecture of K10.5 with improved power consumption. It is assumed that notebooks based on this platform will appear in 2010. Most likely, laptops CPU-GPU LIano that is based on the platform Sabine will hit the market until late 2011.

Unfortunately, the Phenom II processors and Athlon II even on steroids are not able to resist the processors Intel Core I5 and the Core i7, namely Lynnfield 45nm and 32nm Clarkdale. AMD has hoped to gain revenge in 2011, and has characteristics of Fusion, CPU and GPU in one bottle, look quite impressive. Drawback of this design is that the future dual-core processor is still based on the corrected core Phenom with some improvements, in particular, with improved power consumption. Probably, the new processors will look very similar to the new edition of the 45nm dual-core K10.5, Issue which is scheduled for the second quarter of 2010.

In addition, LIano will support DirectX 11, probably due to something like a built-family Park Evergreen. According to rumors, the power consumption of the chip will vary from 8W to 15W, and TDP version that will be used in LIano, is likely to be small. Integrated graphics Evergreen class DX11 will support UVD 3.0. For normal operation of the new processor will require RAM DDR3 frequency 1600MGts, as the graphics core will need quick access to memory. Southbridge, code-named Hudson M2 will support USB 3.0, 4x PCIe, 6 SATA with RAID, and CIR, as well as the presence of the generator frequency.