AMD has taken its time in the notebook market and we've yet to see a really appealing mobile platform from the company, but it looks as if 2010 might be the year AMD finally has a solution for everything from the entry level to the high-end.

AMD has always been behind Intel when it comes to manufacturing process and this is one of the key aspects that has held AMD back in the mobile CPU market space, as you need cutting edge technology to create cool running, low power mobile CPUs. AMD is moving to 45nm next year, at the same time as Intel is moving to 32nm, but this is still a huge step forward from AMD's current 65nm process.

At the same time AMD is shifting over to DDR3 memory for its entire mobile CPU platform which will further help reduce the power usage, although only marginally in this case compared to DDR2 memory. The details with regards to chipset and integrated graphics options are yet a close kept secret, but these could further help improve things for AMD on the mobile side of things.

Currently Intel can't compete with AMD when it comes to the performance of integrated graphics and we doubt that will change any time soon thanks to AMD's ownership of ATI. AMD also plans to have discrete DirectX 11 graphics options available at some stage during next year.

High-end AMD notebooks will see dual and quad core processors while the ultra thin category will get a new improved dual core CPU. In 2011 AMD will only offer quad core mobile processor in its mainstream category of notebook, while the ultra thin category gets a new dual core CPU. At the same time AMD is planning on moving to a 32nm manufacturing process which should further lower the power draw and lower the heat produced by the CPU.

There's no mention about a unified CPU/GPU solution as per Intel's Arrendale platform on the current roadmap, but we know that AMD is working on it and it might just arrive in time for 2011 if we're to believe a post on Fudzilla.

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