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To: tejek who wrote (76230)	10/20/1999 3:23:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572100

Tejerk - Re: "In your posts earlier this year, intc was # 1 in profits. " I don't recall ever saying any such thing. Perhaps you can point out one of my posts where I did make such a claim. Paul

To: tejek who wrote (76230)	10/20/1999 11:43:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572100

ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THE DRESDEN FAB: ______________________________________________________________________ AMD Opens World's Most Advanced Fab in Dresden DRESDEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1999--AMD (NYSE:AMD) today dedicated the world's most advanced wafer fabrication facility in Dresden, Germany. The grand opening of the company's Fab 30 marked the successful completion of a project which began with groundbreaking in October 1996. The state-of-the-art fab is being readied for volume production of leading-edge microprocessors for Microsoft Windows computing. Fab 30 activities are currently focused on characterization and qualification of the facility. The company expects to begin production of AMD Athlon(TM) processors featuring copper interconnect technology later in the current quarter with first revenue shipments planned for the second quarter of next year. Investment in Fab 30 will total $1.9 billion, approximately DM 3.2 billion. AMD's investment ranks as one of the largest foreign investments in East Germany. Dedication ceremonies featured remarks from Saxony Governor Professor Kurt Biedenkopf and W.J. Sanders III, AMD chairman and chief executive officer. "Today we are dedicating a magnificent new manufacturing facility, the first fab of the new millennium, and the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in the world," Sanders said. "Next year, we plan to be producing AMD Athlon processors capable of running at 1 gigahertz, or 1,000 megahertz, here in Dresden. Employing industry-leading copper interconnect technology and 180-nanometer design rules, the 1-gigahertz and faster AMD Athlon processor will continue AMD's leadership in PC processor performance." Sanders noted that a pre-production version of the AMD Athlon processor built using the technology being installed in Dresden achieved speeds in excess of 900 megahertz. James Doran, vice president and general manager of AMD Saxony Manufacturing GmbH, said, "Today's ceremonies represent the completion of the Fab 30 'start-up' phase. Our efforts are now focused on qualifying the fab for production of the AMD Athlon processor. We expect first revenue shipments from Dresden in the second quarter of next year." Fab 30 will eventually be capable of producing 5,000 8-inch wafers per week. It is the first facility in Europe to employ copper technology in the manufacture of advanced processors. Approximately 950 employees have been hired by AMD Saxony to date. That number is expected to grow to approximately 1,800 over the next several years. Seventy-five percent of the current Dresden workforce was hired locally, and an additional 13 percent came from the New Federal States. Sanders emphasized the importance of a qualified workforce and noted that people provide the competitive edge in the microelectronics industry. "It is easy to be caught up by the incredible complexity of a modern semiconductor manufacturing facility and, in the process, to overlook the role of people. No facility, no matter how grand and wondrous it may be, has utility or value without skilled and talented people to unleash its productive power," he said. Sanders also noted the importance of the Dresden Design Center, which is part of the company's European microelectronics center. "To extend and build upon our processor leadership, we must provide a total solution," he said, "including the processor and the surrounding circuitry to complete the platform. This will be the challenge for the Dresden Design Center: developing the supporting circuitry to complete the platform as well as contributing to the development of future microprocessor products." The Dresden Design Center employs approximately 60 engineers.