65 nanometre in Q4, however
AMD IS GEARING up its latest baby, its Fab 36 factory based in Dresden, Germany. I visited Dresden two weeks ago, which is when the ramp up began. The first 12-inch wafers are already in production. While the reps declined to comment what processors are being printed on the wafers, the press release is expected quite soon. The company execs recently gave the green light to ramp up the production to 13.000 wafer starts a week. How many of those wafers are usable, remains to be seen.
However, the situation is not entirely rosy. We've heard partners and distributors spreading a lot of bitter comments regarding AMD's tight supply of the processors, which is allegedly due to the "extreme success" of the Opteron Series 800's, which customers are really buying like there's no tomorrow. AMD currently has 40 per cent of the world's 4P server market, and the company reps are confident the firm will take the lead in that segment before the end of the year.
The other buzz is that AMD has yield problem, and that's the main reason why some wafers are being built with strained SOI and others on "regular" SOI wafers.
Fab 36 should help re-solve the supply story in any case, but the equipment has not yet arrived in full force. One assembly line is completed, there are several more to follow. Bear in mind that both Fab 30 and 36 aren't built using the normal "pipeline" concept, but rather with an overlapping one. The 65 nanometre assembly kit is also ordered, and AMD expects to start printing 65 nm lithography in the next calendar quarter, ready for a Q4 introduction.
Source - The Inq.
AMD IS GEARING up its latest baby, its Fab 36 factory based in Dresden, Germany. I visited Dresden two weeks ago, which is when the ramp up began. The first 12-inch wafers are already in production. While the reps declined to comment what processors are being printed on the wafers, the press release is expected quite soon. The company execs recently gave the green light to ramp up the production to 13.000 wafer starts a week. How many of those wafers are usable, remains to be seen.
However, the situation is not entirely rosy. We've heard partners and distributors spreading a lot of bitter comments regarding AMD's tight supply of the processors, which is allegedly due to the "extreme success" of the Opteron Series 800's, which customers are really buying like there's no tomorrow. AMD currently has 40 per cent of the world's 4P server market, and the company reps are confident the firm will take the lead in that segment before the end of the year.
The other buzz is that AMD has yield problem, and that's the main reason why some wafers are being built with strained SOI and others on "regular" SOI wafers.
Fab 36 should help re-solve the supply story in any case, but the equipment has not yet arrived in full force. One assembly line is completed, there are several more to follow. Bear in mind that both Fab 30 and 36 aren't built using the normal "pipeline" concept, but rather with an overlapping one. The 65 nanometre assembly kit is also ordered, and AMD expects to start printing 65 nm lithography in the next calendar quarter, ready for a Q4 introduction.
Source - The Inq.
hyeah:
The Fab 36 ramping part is true, but u can never say abt the 65 nm priduction yet.