14 DAY TRIAL // AMD recently announced that in June it began its first revenue shipments of AMD64 processors manufactured at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore, informs X-bit Labs. Initial shipments out of Chartered consisted of microprocessors manufactured on 90nm process technology.
"Achieving mature yields on-plan and ahead of schedule for 90nm volume production in support of AMD's expanding market opportunity have been our collective goals since we initiated our manufacturing collaboration in 2004, and we are equally proud of these results," said Kay Chai "KC" Ang, senior vice president of fab operations at Chartered. "Our close working relationship with AMD has not only enhanced our ability to meet and exceed its aggressive manufacturing requirements, but has provided pass-through benefits resulting from our implementation of Automated Precision Manufacturing know-how from AMD."
AMD and Chartered originally announced a manufacturing agreement in late 2004 which called for volume production of AMD64 products in the second half of 2006.
Advanced Micro Devices announced, on the other hand, that it will build a new facility in New York State, and that the plant will start the production in 2010 and will cost $3.2 billion, and another one in its Dresden campus for Bump and Test requirements.
"Previously, the clean room facilities for Bump and Test activities were located within Fab 30 and Fab 36. By moving them into a new facility in 2007, AMD has the ability to maximize production space at both Fab 36 and Fab 38. Additionally, AMD will install extra production equipment into the Fab 36," commented X-bit Labs.
But last week the manufacturer got its gold medal and said that several AMD Opteron processor-based systems are listed among the world's highest-performing supercomputers, as determined by the Top500 Organization during the 21st International Supercomputer Conference in Dresden, Germany.
The supercomputer Tsubame is based on more than 10,000 AMD Opteron processor cores and Sun Systems' latest Sun Fire servers. It seems that, in the tests which took place in May, Tsubame proved to be more than powerful, "ranking" no less than ... 38.18 teraflops.