Via AMD Zone kwam ik bij deze erg interessante post op het Silicon Investor message board, met een verslag van een AMD management meeting:
- Athlon 900, 950 en 1000 vanaf volgende maand in grote aantallen te kunnen leveren
- 2GHz barrière eind 2001 doorbroken
- Dresden haalt momenteel goede yields voor 0,18micron koper-interconnect processors
- Plannen om fabspace in Dresden te verhuren worden heroverwogen, AMD denkt alle capaciteit zelf te kunnen benutten.
Hier heb je de complete post:
On Copper Fab30 Yields:"AMD Management Meeting: Management expects to ship hundreds of thousands of the new high-performance 900MHz/950MHz/1GHz Athlons 2Q2000, but only a limited quantity this quarter/month to Compaq and Gateway. Its performance visibility currently ranges as far as 2GHz by the end of 2001. The Dresden Fab 30 production ramp of Athlon is doing well: 0.18-micron copper interconnect process is working fine, yields are excellent and management believes its speed distribution is very competitive with Intel."
Future business plans including Dresden "sharing":
"AMD has no plans to pursue a Timna-type integrated microprocessor and graphics device. The flash memory business remains very hot and capacity expansion plans are on-track. AMD has never been a supplier to Ericsson and has no plans to enter the mass data storage flash market at this time-it has a NAND-type device, but is not attracted to the expected cost-driven economics of the segment. Management would not comment on the Microsoft Xbox game project expected to be announced tomorrow, other than admit AMD is one of two bidders. Plans to engage with a partner to share capacity and costs of the new Fab 30 in Dresden are being re-evaluated. Simply put, the company is significantly more confident it will fully utilize the facility as it ramps over the 18 months beginning 2Q2000 than it was last year when the plan was hatched.
The communications business is not part of AMD's long-term strategy and will likely be restructured in some way (sold, spun-off, merged or other). In the mean time, it is growing by 25% and very profitable. We believe the outlook for the Athlon has improved with diminishing manufacturing risks, and the company is well positioned to compete with Intel over the next several quarters. We expect to revise our earnings estimates upward over the next few days."