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Jul 18, 2006 at 12:07 PM |
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Having just come back from our yearly pilgrimage, better known as Semicon West it is a time to catch up on news we simply didn't get the time to cover during the show. Last week AMD announced that it had received AMD64 processors manufactured at Chartered Semiconductor on 300mm wafers using a 90nm SOI process.
This is the first foundry agreement AMD has made and is intended to supplement its in-house production at Fab 30 and Fab 36. Although AMD has not specified the monthly run rate it has secured at Chartered we estimate it is around 2,000wspm. Importantly, AMD and Chartered are claiming ‘mature yields' which should indicate that should AMD want to ramp more wafer starts at Chartered, this is now possible. Back in March (http://www.fabtech.org/content/view/1387/2/) we highlighted reports that June was indeed the time AMD expected finished wafers from Chartered. Also reported in March (http://www.fabtech.org/content/view/1390) was the news that yields would be above 50 percent! Both stories received a tremendous amount of traffic and clickthru's to these stories continue to this day! We seem to be right on the mark with these announcements, which makes up for us not getting the location of AMD's next (third) 300mm fab right, last month! I just hope we can keep up this up?
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