AMD Throws $2.5 billion at New Fab

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited May 2006 in Science & Tech
AMD announced that it plans to invest a total of $2.5 billion US Dollars to expand manufacturing capacity in Germany. To do this AMD will add an additional 12-inch wafer production line in Dresden and call it Fab 38, AMD will now have a total of 3 Fab's in Dresden boosting wafers to 45,000+ per month.
AMD will ramp down 12-inch manufacturing in the second half of 2007, with preparation already underway for the ramp of 12-inch wafers on 65nm process technology at Fab 38 by the end of 2007. This plant will produce the latest generations of AMD microprocessors and reach full capacity by the end of 2008.
The new addition will boost Dresden-based manufacturing to a full capacity of 45,000 12-inch wafer starts per month by the end of 2008.

Source: DigiTimes

Comments

  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited May 2006
    Hope this'll lower CPU costs in the long run.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    TheSmJ wrote:
    Hope this'll lower CPU costs in the long run.
    We can only hope.:O
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