"At issue is the introduction of a new technology. This secure the site's competitiveness Dresden for the next eight to ten years.
More on the Dresden facility: "
Fab 1, located in Dresden, Germany is a 364,512 m² plant which was transferred to GlobalFoundries on its inception: Fab 36 and Fab 38 were renamed Module 1 and Module 2, respectively. Each module can produce 25,000 300 mm diameter wafers per month.[5][8]
Module 1 is a 300 mm wafer production facility. It is capable of manufacturing wafers at 65 nm and 45 nm for use in AMD CPUs, APUs, and future 32 nm SOI HKMG silicon. Module 2 was originally named "(AMD) Fab 30" and was a 200 mm fab producing 30,000 Wafer Outs Per Month (wopm), but has now been converted into a 300 mm wafer fab. Together they have a maximum full capacity of 80,000 of 300 mm wafers/month. (180,000 200 mm wafers/month equivalent), using technologies of 45 nm and below.<
Hmm looks like this facility is right in that 40nm wheelhouse. So that statement of a new technology that could extend the facility's use for another decade might have some real legs.
Sunny you are working on a six pack of Black Toad Awards. Nice catch.
