AMD tops off $2.5bn Dresden manufacturing plant

Posted on 18 May 2004 at 10:27

AMD 'topped off' its new manufacturing plant in Dresden in Germany yesterday. Fab 36 is expected to produce 300mm wafers ready to build AMD 64-bit chips in two years' time.

The company expects the plant to turn out the first 300mm silicon test wafers in the middle of next year with the commercially produced chips due in the first half of 2006.

It is expecting to invest some $2.5bn in the plant.

Author: Steve Malone