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Jan 23, 2006 at 05:33 PM |
 During AMD's financial analyst conference call Hector Ruiz,
AMD's Chairman, President and CEO, reiterated that Fab36 its first
300mm fab will start shipping microprocessors in volume as planned,
beginning in the first quarter 06.
The yields he noted were now approaching those achieved at Fab30, its
200mm fab that is at full capacity producing its complete range of
microprocessors. The devices being fabricated at Fab36 use AMD's 65nm
process but on 90nm design rules to assist in a fast ramp with high
yields.
Recently, the company signed a new supply contract
for SOI wafers that are used for all its IC's at both fabs that tripled
in value from the previous year. AMD used a minimum of $50 million
dollars worth of 200mm SOI wafers for Fab30 in 2005, while the new
contract is worth a minimum of $150 million it can be assumed the much
of the $100 million deal is related to 300mm wafers. This also
indicates that AMD remains on track to ramp Fab36 as aggressively as
Ruiz stated to the press at the fab opening late last year.
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