<Slater said AMD appears to be hitting its Athlon production targets, shipping about 800,000 in the fourth quarter of 1999.>
My take on this is they meant to say that AMD appears to be hitting its Athlon production target of shipping 800,000 (that the target has been reached, and not that the target is what they shipped.)
<Steve Lapinski, director of product marketing at AMD, confirmed that the company is able to meet demand. The company's new fab in Dresden, Germany is "on track for production in the second half of 2000, using copper" interconnects, he said. At a financial analysts meeting in November, AMD demonstrated a copper-based Athlon running at 900 MHz, he said.>
According to the below news article from Oct.20, 1999, Dresden will be revenue-generating in 2Q2000. Perhaps they're saying that volume shipments will begin 2H, but only small quantities will ramp in 2Q, which will generate minimal revenues. Or, perhaps EET got the wrong info.
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