AMD held its expected press release to announce its roadmap for the next few years, and we were treated to a smattering amount of information on netbooks.

2009 will see the coming of the Conesus, a 65-nm chip with two cores and 1MB cache, that AMD is manufacturing for ultra-portables and mini-notebooks. In 2010, the Conesus will see its successor arrive: the Geneva. The key difference will be a cache upgrade from 1MB to 2MB.

AMD is of course hoping that the Conesus and later the Geneva will be a legitimate challenger to Intel’s all-conquering Atom processor. Bring it on!