Wednesday, April 26, 2006

A tour of Fab36

The much awaited Fab36 production facility of AMD has started operations now and started revenue shipments in march this year. Located at Dresden, Germany It seems to be the most advanced chip manufacturing plant on earth. AMD began construction of Fab 36 — its first 300 mm wafer facility — in November 2003. By November 2004, AMD Fab 36 was ready for equipment. Fab 36 had its first silicon run in 2005. AMD Fab 36 implements the third generation of AMD's Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM 3.0).



Fab 36 is designed to continue this rock-solid consistency, ensuring we can effectively and efficiently meet the growing demand for AMD 64-bit solutions worldwide. AMD ramped the new 300 millimeter (mm) fab to 90 nanometer (nm) volume production in record time, hitting every major milestone on schedule and beginning production at mature yields.

The success of Fab 36 builds upon the tremendous achievements of Fab 30, which is located adjacent to Fab 36 and manufactures chips on 200mm wafers.

APM at work

Bird's eye view of Fab36
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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's great to know about FAB36
but will it actually complete it's increasing demand specially in third world countries like India and Brazil.

April 27, 2006 1:32 AM
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May 04, 2006 8:48 PM
Pratyush said...

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May 04, 2006 11:25 PM
Anonymous said...

Never heard of 300mm thick chip waffers. Is it some sort of Typo error.

June 12, 2006 2:27 AM

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