Sunnyvale-Based AMD to Invest $2.5 Billion in German Chip Operations

Sunnyvale, Calif. -- AMD, the Sunnyvale-based chipmaker fighting for market share with Santa Clara-based Intel, said that it plans to invest $2.5 billion to expand its chip manufacturing capacity in Germany over the next three years. The company said that it will transform its current 200 mm wafer facility in Dresden to a 300 mm facility, allowing the company to pack twice as many processors on a wafer. AMD also will expand the capacity of another plant by adding a new clean room facility, designed to better handle a manufacturing process where wafers are prepared to be shipped for packaging. AMD said that the projects have the potential to increase its Dresden-based manufacturing to a full capacity of 45,000 300mm wafer starts a month by the end of 2008.
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