This evening AMD officially launched its 32nm A-series quad-core processors, codenamed Llano, for mainstream laptops. This is very big news for AMD as it's the company's first 32nm processor, which has been a long time coming as rival Intel has been shipping 32nm processors since 2010. AMD has been doing battle against these more advanced processors with their dated 45nm process chips, but it's coming time to put those fellows out to pasture. For the moment AMD has caught up to Intel on the manufacturing process front and plans on taking advantage of this by launching what they believe are going to be very competitive notebook processors.