The Register heeft een artikeltje gepost over de opening van AMD's Dresden fab. Gisteren werd uit de press release al duidelijk dat AMD inmiddels 0,18micron koper Athlon's op snelheden van boven de 900MHz heeft lopen. 1GHz Athlon's zullen echter pas in de tweede helft van 2000 geïntroduceerd worden, een doordachte stap volgens The Register:
The lengthy run-up AMD is giving itself could mean that at last the company is boxing clever. It figures it has a lead over Intel in copper technology (AMD misses no opportunity to describe Dresden as the world's most advanced facility), and it has plenty pent-up demand, so it has the time to work on yields, maximise production and then hit the market in Q2 at full force.And then there's the matter of the Dresden Design Center, the R&D section running alongside Fab 30. At the opening ceremony Sanders made a point of stressing the Center's importance in designing a "total solution... including the processor and the surrounding circuitry." Advanced Athlon chipsets, anyone?
