That's an aggressive launch schedule, particularly from a company in as precarious a position as AMD is, and successfully executing it will require a great deal of skill. Shanghai is far stronger out of the gate than Barcelona ever was, but it'll be quite some time before Sunnyvale is back on any kind of good financial footing. As for what's coming post-Shanghai on the desktop, AMD did release a few details. It plans to introduce two 32nm Bulldozer cores in 2011, Llano and Ontario. Llano will be a quad-core part with support for DDR3 and up to 8MB of cache, while Ontario will be a dual-core laptop part with an integrated GPU. There's no word yet on the company's "Quebec" processor, but we expect that core will feature AMD's Separatist Technology. Rumor has it that the project is bogged down in negotiations, most of which are aimed at persuading the upcoming chip that it is not, in fact, a Xeon.

Llano of course is a county, town, and river just Northwest of Austin in the Hill Country. I was there back in the Summer and I can tell you it has a Dairy Queen, and the Super S food store was selling deer mounts. There is not a lot else.