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To: fyodor_ who wrote (37971)	5/1/2001 1:21:14 PM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 275872

>Ground breaking for Fab25 was July 1993. Equipment installation began Q3 1994. First silicon was December 1994. But when did production runs start?< I believe that the first revenue shipments were 133 MHz Am5x86 processors in November/December 1995. Considering SSA5 was launched at 0.5-micron while Am5x86 was being produced at 0.35-micron, I suppose that AMD could have been producing AmDX4 processors at 0.44(0.5)-micron earlier than that. >Q4 '99* Start of AMD Athlon processor production Well, that's the official time line from AMD's site. In reality, the first Dresden Athlon's were launched in June 2000.< According to rumors at the time, AMD had been stockpiling TBird processors for months while Via got their act together with KT133. In any case, TBird production would have to have started three months before first shipments in June. Q4 1999 production start would have corresponded to Q1 2000 as the point at which AMD started stockpiling TBird processors.