Advanced Micro Devices will be characterized by the initials APU, which stands for Accelerated Processing Unit that identified a new calasse of calculation units formed by a merger of GPU and CPU. And 'in fact this element of the new roadmap, which characterized the American manufacturer has outlined for the next two years.

To bring the concept to debut an APU will be the platform Brazos intended to compete with solutions in the Intel Atom net book and nettop market. This solution will bridge the delay of AMD in this area so far largely unattended. Brazos debut in the first half of 2011 with an initial range based on four models with single and dual core processor from 1 to 1.6 GHz and a consumption of between 9 and 18 Watt TDP.

In the field of processors "traditional" AMD plans are closely tied to the formula of multi-core processors. For 2012, the company expects to begin offering the first 20-core CPU currently known by the codename Terramar. Also in 2012, provided a further steep evolutionary Brazos to the APU and an update of architecture Bulldozer processor for desktops and servers.