AMD's Piledriver-based 'Trinity' to Arrive in Q1 2012
A leaked processor roadmap provides a first clue about the schedule of AMD's upcoming Trinity APUs.
Trinity will replace Llano in the performance, mainstream and entry-level CPU segments with updates new A8, A6, A4 and E2-series processors. The roadmap only relates to mobile processors and offers very few details, but it appears that the upgrade to the Piledriver CPU core and London graphics core won't change the positioning of the processors in the market.
The Bobcat core will be moved upmarket and extended to the Wichita APU for entry-level and mainstream notebooks later in 2012. The Bobcat-Krishna APU will replace the Ontario APU for compact notebooks in AMD's Deccan platform. Trinity, Wichita and Krishna will use variations of the London graphics core.
Not surprisingly, AMD is also driving down the power consumption of its ultra-low power Desna APU, which is at 5.9 watts today, but will be hitting 4.5 watts in the Hondo APU (also with Bobcat cores) next year.
Trinity should become part of the Comal platform next year, which seems to be coexisting with the Sabine platform throughout 2012 in the performance and mainstream segments. Deccan will replace Brazos in the entry-level and compact notebook range, while AMD will survive 2012 in the ultra-low-power segment as Brazos T.
2013 will bring the Samara APU with Jaguar CPU cores on the very low end. It is unclear how much this roadmap has actually changed over the past few weeks, especially since the firing of CEO Dirk Meyer, who was accused of not getting AMD into attractive mobile markets, which would suggest a potential focus on tablets. We were told that AMD would have tablet processors ready in 2012, and Samara looks a lot like the processor we were told about earlier this year.

... and dream on till it becomes reality...
If bulldozer sucks I can see the K series going the way of the Dodo bird and Intel going back to the Extreme series chips. Yay $999 for the same silicon that retails for $200, just the cheap one has limits placed on it. I do not miss those days.
Anyway, I have high hopes for Trinity. Llano started out very well, and hopefully Trinity as well.
When was the last time AMD actually had on the market, a high end CPU to compete? Bulldozer was supposed to be that chip and it is already a gen behind and looking at Intel about to release a further update...
Haters? I think it is justified complaints and disappointed.
Intel's prices are definitely not insanely priced like you said. Although, I question their Core2Quads prices, but that's only because (from what I as told)of limited supply (not manufactured anymore). The i5 2500K is one of the best bang for you buck CPU on the market. The last time really held the market was back in in I believe 2004, maybe up to 2006 at most (a little hazy on this one). After that Intel held the market. Technically AMD isn't behind. Sure Intel has Ivy, but in terms of current CPUs on the market, AMD is playing catch-up ATM. Ivy is only a 20% boost in performance over SB, which, if you have a high-end Intel CPU, is worth passing off.
I can see companies biting the bullet for 20% cpu performance if it means they get 50-80% GPU performance. right now the GPU is a bigger bottle neck in most cases then the CPU.
So you people can laugh at AMD for not having caught up with Intel on the CPU front, I'll just laugh back because Intel never even came close to what Green or Red pumps out for high end.
You are right. Because paying $220 for a 2500K that overclocks like crazy is just insane.
/sarcasm
Currently Intel has great prices and thats without any major competition from AMD. BD looks interesting but from what has bene gathered, nothing special. If the pricing rumors are true, it wont give Intel a run for their money, just keep the status quo as it is.
Honestly we have nothing on BD. No release date, nothing. Yet we know SB-E will be out in November, Ivy Bridge will be out in March 2012 and Haswell will be out in Q1 2013. We have more info on Haswell, more than a year out, than we do on BD.