Recently we have come to begin our reviews of AMD products with thoughts about how very precarious the market standing of that company is. This is actually the obvious conclusion from the fact that for a very long time AMD has not had a competitive processor microarchitecture that might be used in a wide range of products designed for all categories of computers. In fact, the scope of the Stars architecture AMD has been using for over the last three years or something has shrunk so much that AMD processors can only be viewed as a really viable alternative to their Intel counterparts when one is choosing a very inexpensive desktop PC.Fortunately, this article is going to differ from the general trend and be free from the traditional pessimism about AMD. Times are changing and the year of 2011 may be a new period of renaissance for the company. During this year they are expected to overhaul their entire marketing strategy and unveil a plethora of fundamentally new solutions. The basis of the upcoming changes is a new approach according to which the company will be developing not a single all-purpose microarchitecture but a few of them, each with different parameters and each optimized for a specific class of computers.Intel, on their part, have been following this approach for a long time already. As you know, they offer three basic microarchitectures: the Itanium for servers, the Core for general purpose computers and the Atom for low-power-consumption devices. AMD is going to do the same by offering the Bulldozer microarchitecture for servers and workstations, the Llano microarchitecture for midrange computers, and the Bobcat one for energy-efficient and compact systems.