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AMD Breaks Ground on New Chip Facility

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the brand-new-digs dept.

philthedrill writes "AMD announced that they have broken ground on Fab 36, which again will be located in Dresden, Germany. The 300 mm fab is expected to start volume production in 2006. There's more information at CBS MarketWatch." AMD will be moving from its current 200 mm wafer process, and looking to save money through the higher efficiency of the new process, as well as keep up with expected demand for their next generation processors. The MarketWatch article also contains some speculation about probable partners for AMD.

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  1. size by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why don't they skip to 10 foot wafers?

  2. Re:300 mm? I hope that's wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    A 300mm fab means the fab is 300mm, not the features. Obviously, with such a small plant (almost on a nanotech scale), the features of the semiconductors it produces will be absolutely tiny. Less than the width of a human hair. Apparently they're using gammaray lithography.

  3. Building size... by MosesJones · · Score: 1, Funny


    So we've all agreed that 300mm isn't the chip size, so it must be the size of the fab itself. Yes AMD are building the worlds smallest fab, and employing little goblins to make, by hand, the worlds smallest chips.

    Next generation AMD processors will require no power supply as they will have tiny elves inside on treadmills which act both as the power and the clock cycle. Elves have been tested at IBMs labs up to 4.2THz which appears to be their physical limit for peak speed. The advantage of using Elves is that they can intelligently act as a variable clock speed, slowing down when nothing is happening, potentially to a stop, then giving a quick blast of 4.2THz power when required. It should be noted that each chip will have accomodation for around 100 elves, but only 50 will be delivered with the chip, the remaining 50 berths are for expansion and also for much more effective chip to chip communication in "ElfBUS"(tm) multi-processor systems.

    Yes Elves are the future alright, and goblins are taking our jobs.

    Or am I reading a bit too much into this ?

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  4. Re:Just so people know ... by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny
    Please, for god sakes, do not talk out of your ass. How does this shit get modded up?

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  5. Re:Cost of labor by Uma+Thurman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for clarifying your position, you HEMISPHERIST! hehe

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