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To: Shtirlitz who wrote (41477)	11/14/1998 7:19:00 AM
From: Michael DaKota	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573765

DRESDEN, Germany -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s new Fab 30 here has started processing its first full K7 microprocessor test wafers to qualify the production line. First silicon is expected to be completed by Jan. 23, 1999. Jack Saltich, AMD vice president and general manager of the Dresden operation, said initial K7 production will start here by the end of next year. Some K7 processors will be launched next year also at AMD's Austin, Texas, fab, which will also continue to make the existing K6 series. Saltich said Fab 30--the most advanced ever built by AMD--will only make the new K7 MPU. The German fab will initially use 0.22-micron processes, which are understood, to launch mass production--but then quickly move to 0.18-micron design-rule processing. In one of its first previews of Fab 30, AMD officials told Semiconductor Business News that the plant has capacity to ramp up to 20,000 wafer starts a month. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Found this article on semibiznews.com I assume "by the end of next year" is supposed to be "end this year"/"start of next year" ;) FHWL, Michael da Kota