Is IBM building a fab for AMD?

Dom · Jul 2, 2003, 10:55 AM

A REPORT IN Semiconductor Business News follows up an earlier article it published about collaboration between IBM and AMD.
According to the report, IBM is equipping one of its buildings in East Fishkill with a 300mm (12-inch) fab, and will give that fab to AMD for it to make future microprocessors.

The report also suggests there is a wholesale move of AMD process engineers from their current offices in California to New York state, all with the aim of fashioning CPUs at 65 nanometers and using silicon on insulator technology.

The IBM East Fishkill fab is a leading edge factory belonging to Big Blue's Microelectronics division. In the last nine months IBM has turned the factory into a foundry and recruited a number of customers from Taiwanese foundry firms TSMC and UMC.

Earlier this year, an IBM executive suggested that AMD would die within the next five years, and there have been persistent rumours forever that IBM might take over the Intel competitor.

Again, earlier this year, AMD and IBM announced a joint venture which effectively meant they would cooperate together on future chip technology, although details of that deal were sketchy, at best.

The current CEO of AMD, Hector Ruiz, was at one point a Motorola executive, and closely cooperated with IBM on PowerPC architecture.

Ruiz was president of Motorola's semiconductor products sector, and in 1998 signed a seven year deal with AMD to share copper interconnect technology.

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Source: TheInquirer

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jul 2, 2003, 07:55 PM

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Originally posted by Dom
Earlier this year, an IBM executive suggested that AMD would die within the next five years, and there have been persistent rumours forever that IBM might take over the Intel competitor.

and then the world right? what a krock ... ibm is dead in most peoples eyes ... since the stoped selling pc's to consumers... and went bussiness only

No_Style · Jul 2, 2003, 07:59 PM

IBM and Apple formed a relationship for the G5. My concern is why they would say AMD is going to die within the next five years? From the looks of things now, it looks like AMD is really making a name for itself. And doesn't Intel and IBM work together as well?

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Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Is IBM building a fab for AMD? A REPORT IN Semiconductor Business News follows up an earlier article it published about collaboration between IBM and AMD. According to the report, IBM is equipping one of its buildings in East Fishkill with a 300mm (12-inch) fab, and will give that fab to AMD for it to make future microprocessors. The report also suggests there is a wholesale move of AMD process engineers from their current offices in California to New York state, all with the aim of fashioning CPUs at 65 nanometers and using silicon on insulator technology. The IBM East Fishkill fab is a leading edge factory belonging to Big Blue's Microelectronics division. In the last nine months IBM has turned the factory into a foundry and recruited a number of customers from Taiwanese foundry firms TSMC and UMC. Earlier this year, an IBM executive suggested that AMD would die within the next five years, and there have been persistent rumours forever that IBM might take over the Intel competitor. Again, earlier this year, AMD and IBM announced a joint venture which effectively meant they would cooperate together on future chip technology, although details of that deal were sketchy, at best. The current CEO of AMD, Hector Ruiz, was at one point a Motorola executive, and closely cooperated with IBM on PowerPC architecture. Ruiz was president of Motorola's semiconductor products sector, and in 1998 signed a seven year deal with AMD to share copper interconnect technology. ________________________ Source: TheInquirer

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