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Big business motives.
By OTEKKENDURE on 4/8/2006 7:34:25 AM , Rating: 2
It's risky to invest that much in Dresden. But if it pays off we'll be looking forward to some big-off cpu power in the near future capable of busting incoming 'meteors' - averting natural disasters. Ha Ha.

By hans007 on 4/8/2006 8:02:59 AM , Rating: 2
well the reason they built their plants in dresden is the state of saxony there paid for half of them with tax breaks and such , free land whatever, so that they would move there. until fab30 , amd's main fabs were in texas. at the time fab30 was being built, amd was practically bankrupt so they took the deal from germany. i mean german labor is EXPENSIVE even compared to in america. but to get the money to build the fab they went ahead with it.

amd has like no cash. they dont even have 5.8 billion to spend as it is, this is all contingent on them making a ton of money in the next 3 years or selling A LOT of bonds or the germans picking up the tab.

a lot of european nations do this, ireland does too for other factories etc.

that said, they package them in malaysia / philippines etc because labor there is cheap pure and simple.

also to wheover said that the athlon 754 didnt come out till september 2003 or whatever. the opteron was out over a year before that, so the athlon 64 architecture is about 4 years old now.

RE: Big business motives.
By PandaBear on 4/12/2006 12:18:41 PM , Rating: 2
The efficiency gain by having all their stuff (and staff) in one place is much more than the risk of natual disasters.

Think, which one is more likely to occur? A yeild drop that need quick reaction? or a meteor? When the company I used to work for build equipment for their FAB36, they have it designed so that one FAB's cleanroom can transfer their wafer stack (25 of them) in a sealed cassette to another FAB's cleanroom. You can't do that if 2 FAB are 12 timezone away without lots of contamination and time. Another benefit is to reuse resources like administratives, engineeers, HR, shipping, maintanence, and of course, expensive metrology equipments.


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