I was yesterday evening at AMD's "Computex" event in San Francisco (top picture) where senior VP Randy Allen (pictured) gave more details on the company's next generation mobile platform, Puma.

Allen stressed that AMD is still one of 2 companies (the other is Intel!) in the world that can develop and deliver x86 solutions in volume. He was also happy of the company's execution after an "horribilis" year where AMD missed the introduction of its next-generation Opteron server chip (Barcelona).

During the question and answer session, Allen confirmed the roll-out of 45nm chips by the end of the year (Insight64 analyst Nathan Brookwood had it down for the end of 2H08... is AMD late on this too?) as well as return to profitability.

I was surprised Allen was that enthused by the low-cost mini-notebook market that Intel is targeting like crazy with the Atom chip. For the AMD exec, that market is really tiny considering the mainstream notebook that would span from the low end value products to the gamer enthusiasts.

Allen is also hopeful to take advantage of delays on Intel's next generation mobile platform, Montevina. Intel might actually deliver it so late that exclusive OEMs might just miss the back-to-school season.

Finally, for Allen, AMD is back in the rythm!