Dual-core mobile processors will remain the sweet spot for price performance segment even in 2011. Quad cores for notebooks will increase their market share, but they won’t become dominant anytime soon.

As part of Sabine notebook performance platform AMD plans to introduce Llano in 2011. AMD doesn’t give many details about Llano, but it does say that you can expect that the notebook version has two cores, integrated GPU as well as DDR3 support. Llano will also debut in a quad-core version, but it will mainly target some high end notebooks and desktop replacement systems, probably some All-in-one systems as well.

Furthermore, it's well known that performance segment Fusion, codenamed Llano, is a 32nm processor and features a BGA package. Notebook version should also come with APM boost technology, something we suspect is AMD’s version of Turbo on fly overclocking feature which would get AMD back on the competitive track, but again only in 2011.