With new factory, AMD ups ante against Intel

Iria · Oct 14, 2005, 04:12 PM

For years, Advanced Micro Devices has dreamed of nabbing 30 percent of the market share for PC microprocessors.

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.
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Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	With new factory, AMD ups ante against Intel For years, Advanced Micro Devices has dreamed of nabbing 30 percent of the market share for PC microprocessors. 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. __________ Read More / Source: ZDNet