Austin, Texas
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is planning a 300mm state-of-the-art plant. The site of the Texas chip manufacturer's new plant, called fab 35, should be determined by the end of 2001, to be built in 2004 or 2005. One of the sites under consideration is Dresden, Germany, where AMD currently has a new 200mm facility, called fab 30, that will hit full production with 1,800 employees at the end of this year. Also under construction is an AMD/Fujitsu joint venture mega fab in Japan that could potentially produce 300mm wafers.
