Re: AMD to build 3rth factury in Dresden Germany

Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 29 May 2006 12:52:54 -0400) it happened Yousuf Khan
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Jan Panteltje wrote:
That says 45000 wafers per month, so say half a million each year.
How many processors on average on a wafer?

Assuming 150 mm^2 dies on average, that would be about 450 dies per
wafer. That goes upto 650 dies, if the average is 100 mm^2.

so 500 x 1/2 million = 250 million processors / year.
Now that is a respectable number.

I can't see AMD going under 150 mm^2 even at 65nm, considering that
quad-core is on its way. However, if they adopt a ZRAM L3 cache, they
might be able to pull it off.

Yousuf Khan

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