Re: AMD to build 3rth factury in Dresden Germany

On a sunny day (29 May 2006 20:04:03 -0700) it happened "YKhan"
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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


ZRAM, now I decided to look that up in google, and found this:
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2006Jan/gee20060124034376.htm

Anyways, we see so much new tech, how long would it take to test
that, so one would be sure it would work... maybe not so long indeed,
no new materials involved, it is an old effect.
Yes and a larger cache may give AMD even more speed advantage...
Wait and see I suppose...

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