CPU/Mobo With new factory, AMD ups ante against Intel

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Although achieving that goal won't be easy, a new fabrication facility opened in Germany on Friday gives the company the real estate to try.

Fab 36, located next door to an existing fab outside the city of Dresden, adds 13,400 square meters of clean-room space to AMD's manufacturing arsenal. Combined with factory capacity at Chartered Semiconductor that's available to AMD under an existing alliance, AMD will have a substantial part of the infrastructure needed to churn out 100 million processors a year by 2008, said Daryl Ostrander, senior vice president of logic, manufacturing and technology at AMD.

Running full tilt, that should be enough to hit the elusive number, or at least help AMD participate in all segments of the PC market

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The first tool hook-up in Advanced Micro Devices' Fab 36 clean room took place in December 2004. The total cost of the chip fabrication plant in Dresden, Germany, is expected to come to $2.5 billion.

Tool hook-up still in progress in March 2005 in AMD's chip fabrication plant. The Fab 36 equipment includes antivibration systems and chemical deposition machines.

The robot on the ceiling track is a Forward Opening Unified Pod (FOUP). It moves wafers from one section of the fab to another.

 

[SunnyBoi]

wow..thats great

 

[kin_of_evil]

good ,, really good in fact

 

[Rahul]

thats nice ...... but it wud take some to catch up with intel ...

 

[Striker10]

good good ... hey guys in April 2006 would it be a good decision to get socket 939 AMD processor ?

 

[Nikhil]

No.. by then you better wait and buy a Socket M2 a few months later.

 

[Aditya]

Looks cool.

Hope AMD catches up with Intel soon .

 

[Striker10]

No.. by then you better wait and buy a Socket M2 a few months later.

any advantages using M2 socket ? I am sure M2 socket will not have support for AGP !! LOL

 

[~HeadShot~]

Nice to see AMD capturing a footing of equality with Intel...
Only if their marketing chaps are a little bit more shrewd...

 

[Aditya]

M2 Socket supports DDR2 memory for one.

The FSB will be more.

Other details.. not revealed yet.