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AMD's Fab 30 Revealed
Harkids writes "AnandTech posted a
sweet article about a recent trip to AMD's newest chip manufacturing plant,
Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. The article is more than just a walk around the building;
it includes juicy details of AMD's microprocessor manufacturing process, innovations,
and even has some Hammer info in it. A good read if you are interested in CPUs
or simply what AMD has up their sleeve."
Direct link to the article on one single page and without ads
From my experience in the process control industry, this is typical of European especially German engineering. They make great products you hear very little about. We had a vendor in a while ago with some great industrial Ethernet products; they have been around for years but the first time we heard of them was by being included in a larger system. Great engineering is wonderful but you gotta sell it too!
SCO, Microsoft, P2P, what's your hot button?
While it is true that Dresden is located in the valley of the river Elbe (which caused the floods you mentioned), Fab 30 is a few miles outside Dresden, well above the highest possible flood level.
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The city's infrastructure was affected though, which may have caused some trouble for the people working at Fab 30.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPress
http://www.geek.co
However, floods and other unforeseeable events can of course cause a major ripple in the economic situation of an enterprise such as AMD. Sometimes even rumors suffice...
In german language "M" is used also (more common is Mrd.) as an abbreviation for "Milliarde" which is "billion", not exclusively for million.
Probably thats where the confusion derives from.
FYI, Hardware Analysis has an article on the AMD Dresden plant. They were invited to an AMD Media Workshop there.
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http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1
A bit short but they've got two pictures of the plant.
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I mean, seriously, folks. I've been out of the technology loop for a good half year now (and there's another half year on top of that where I was just coasting), and even I'm not slow enough to mod this one up. Sixteen thousand 48-bit registers? *Think* about it!
... pepperoni and copper interconnects.
And Dresden has been running for quite some time, producing tons of 30nm copper interconnect (y'all do remember copper, right?) chips.
Still, Tiger's post got modded up to 5, so I guess that it's a phenomenally successful troll. It just irks me. It's like having an article on Microsoft's Windows code and having a comment about Microsoft switching over to gcc modded up!
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Sanders: Ummm
Grove: Aye, [shouting] TOMBSTONE PIZZA, CRAIG!
... is that the Hammer is being mass produced and is actually going to ship!
There is nothing wrong with being gay. It's getting caught where the trouble lies.
They just posted another bigger article with a bunch of pictures and even a video. Check it out at http://hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1581/
AMD's Fab 30, Simply Fabulous5 81/
http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1