Advanced Micro Devices Inc. confirmed Thursday that it is building a $2.4 billion microprocessor manufacturing facility, or fab, in Dresden, Germany. The facility, named AMD Fab 36, will produce chips on 300 millimeter wafers and is expected to employ 1,000 people. Full volume production is scheduled for 2006, the Sunnyvale, California, company said. AMD said that the expanded manufacturing capacity will enable it to meet demand for 64-bit processors. The announcement comes after news on Tuesday that Sun Microsystems Inc. will be shipping two new servers based on AMD's 64-bit Opteron processors.
AMD Fab 36 will sit alongside another AMD Dresden fab, where the company said that it benefits from local employee skills and government-backed financial packages. The new facility is expected to cost $2.4 billion over four years. AMD said that it has arranged external financing and government support worth $1.5 billion. Of the external financing, $700 million will come from bank loans and $500 million is expected to come from grants and allowances from the German government and the German state of Saxony. Additionally, $320 million is expected from equity funding from Saxony and a group of European investors, AMD said.
News source: InfoWorld
AMD Fab 36 will sit alongside another AMD Dresden fab, where the company said that it benefits from local employee skills and government-backed financial packages. The new facility is expected to cost $2.4 billion over four years. AMD said that it has arranged external financing and government support worth $1.5 billion. Of the external financing, $700 million will come from bank loans and $500 million is expected to come from grants and allowances from the German government and the German state of Saxony. Additionally, $320 million is expected from equity funding from Saxony and a group of European investors, AMD said.
News source: InfoWorld
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- feature: friends list hints show username and Fullname
- feature: improved voice quality and call setup
- feature: added check for audio hardware presence on startup
- feature: added application-wide hotkeys and keyboard tab under options
- feature: "Esc","N" and "H" act like the hangup button on the calltab, "Y" and "A" act like the green button on the calltab if there is an incoming call
- feature: "F1" key anywhere in main window opens the help url
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- feature: users can set global hotkeys for using main features of Skype under options
- feature: added view text message history items to Friends List and call-log context (right-click) menus
- change: faster online presence updates
- change: new Estonian language file
- change: new English language file
- change: calltab context menu (right-click) has mute/unmute item
- change: picking up usbphone focuses Friends List tab now
- change: space key is disabled on call tab (some users were inadvertently answering calls)
- change: call and search results tabs can be closed with Ctrl-F4
- change: some minor changes in Dutch translation
- bugfix: echo cancellation is enabled even when little echo is detected (fixes version 0.94 echo problem)
- bugfix: confirm dialogs are unicode enabled now
- bugfix: usbphone support - several bugfixes, more error handling
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thats 30cm
is this like a massproduced wafer consisting of many cores ?!?!
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