AMD Saxony
AMD Saxony refers to the former Dresden company AMD Saxony LLC & Co. KG , in which processors were manufactured. The company was located in Wilschdorf in the Klotzsche district in the north of Dresden, not far from the airport.
AMD Saxony was founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). AMD invested around 6 billion US dollars in the Dresden location by the end of 2007. Hans-Raimund Deppe headed the company from 1997 to 2009 . In 2008 around 2800 employees worked at AMD Saxony. The last managing director and general manager of AMD Saxony was Jim Doran from February 2009. In March 2009, AMD Saxony was outsourced to the new company Globalfoundries as part of the spin-off of semiconductor manufacturing from AMD .
legal form
The company was founded as a limited partnership with a limited liability company registered as general partner . A Limited Liability Company is a form of company in the United States and is very similar to a German GmbH . The constellation is therefore largely equivalent to a GmbH & Co. KG or Limited & Co. KG .
Fab 30
From 1999 to November 2007, AMD Saxony manufactured 30 CPUs on 200 mm wafers in Fab . Production began in 180 nm technology and was converted to 130 nm technology in the fourth quarter of 2002 and to 90 nm technology in August 2004 . Fab 30 regularly transferred pioneering technologies to volume production and strengthened AMD's reputation as a recognized technology leader . The dismantling of the wafers, the production of the CPU housing and the assembly of the processors did not take place in Dresden, but in factories in Asia . In 2001 and 2002 the clean room area was expanded. After production ended in November 2007, the conversion from Fab 30 to Fab 38, which can process 300 mm wafers, began. In 2008, the first 300 mm systems in Fab 38 contributed to production at the Dresden location. Globalfoundries renamed Fab 38 to Fab1, Module 2 and continues production and further expansion.
The federal and state governments supported the construction of Fab 30 with around DM 800 million in subsidies and interest subsidies. The information service provider Semiconductor International named Fab 30 Fab of the Year in 2001 .
The building was erected as a reinforced concrete structure on an area of 428,284 m² according to plans by the architect Alfonso Mercurio . The first groundbreaking took place in October 1996, in May 1998 the equipment of the clean room began and in October 1999 the opening of the fab took place. The client was Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
The main building is the rectangular production building. The semicircular porch in the entrance area in the Bauhaus style is noteworthy , with the facade being structured by "large-scale light-dark contrasts of the wall and openings". The model for this was the AMD factory Fab 25 in Austin / Texas , also based on plans by Alfonso Mercurio.
Fab 36
AMD's second major investment in Dresden built on the success of Fab 30. At the end of 2003 the foundation stone was laid for Fab 36, AMD's first plant for 300 mm wafers. The equipping of the 14,000 m² clean room began in December 2004. In October 2005, the highly automated semiconductor factory started manufacturing microprocessors in 90 nm technology. The conversion of the production to the next smaller structure size 65 nm took place between December 2006 and the 4th quarter of 2007. Most recently, production was carried out in Fab 36 in 65 nm and 45 nm technology. Globalfoundries renamed Fab 36 in March 2009 to Fab1, Module 1 and continued production.
The capital cost of Fab 36 at the time of opening was estimated at $ 2.5 billion. The federal government and the state of Saxony contributed around 660 million US dollars as subsidies.
In contrast to Fab 30, Fab 36 did not belong to AMD Saxony LLC & Co. KG , but to the separate AMD Fab 36 LLC .
Development in Dresden
In addition to the two factories, AMD operated the European center for product development in Dresden, called the Dresden Design Center , and the competence center for adapting modern operating systems to AMD microprocessors, called the Operating System Research Center .
Outsourcing
On September 8, 2008, AMD CEO Dirk Meyer told the US business magazine Fortune that AMD would "develop away from a model that is tied up by fabs to a model less focussed on fabs". The economical separation of the production facilities was on the way. On October 7, 2008, AMD finally announced that it would spin off its factories into a foundry , temporarily called The Foundry Company , operated together with the Abu Dhabi -based investment firm Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) . AMD Saxony was no longer a direct subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
In March 2009, the official name of the newly founded company division was announced: Globalfoundries , almost two thirds of which belongs to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi .
With the establishment of Globalfoundries, AMD Fab 36 and AMD Saxony were initially renamed subsidiaries of Globalfoundries and later to Globalfoundries Dresden Module One LLC & Co. KG and Globalfoundries Dresden Module Two LLC & Co. KG, respectively. In Dresden only the Operating System Research Center remained at AMD, which was also closed at the end of 2012.
Clustering
The company was involved in Advanced Mask Technology Center GmbH & Co. KG (AMTC), a joint venture with Qimonda and Toppan Photomasks . In addition to the AMTC, AMD tried to create regional synergies through the industry association “ Silicon Saxony ” . Together with Qimonda and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft , AMD operated the Fraunhofer Center for Nanoelectronic Technologies (CNT) at the Qimonda Dresden site.
Individual evidence
- ↑ AMD in Dresden ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information on the AMD website, accessed October 25, 2009
- ↑ heise.de: Change in leadership at AMD Dresden on February 20, 2009
- ↑ a b golem.de: AMD names factory division Globalfoundries (March 4, 2009)
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Wikinews: Chip manufacturer AMD wants to further expand the Dresden location - Article dated May 30, 2006 - ↑ a b GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announces Key Leadership Additions. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 1, 2014 (Globalfoundries homepage). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fab 30, Dresden: First Fab for the New Millennium , building documentation. Susa-Verlag, Hameln, December 2009
- ↑ Semiconductor International: AMD Fab 30 - Fab of the Year 2001. AMD's reference fab in Dresden. (No longer available online.) In: best.de. best OpenSystems, April 20, 2005, p. 4 , archived from the original on January 2, 2014 ; accessed on January 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ flag, p. 4 (Chipwerk AMD FAB 30)
- ↑ a b AMD opens second chip factory in Dresden , Heise online, October 14, 2005.
- ↑ Dr. Udo Nothelfer appointed managing director of GLOBALFOUNDRIES in Dresden - October 21, 2009
- ↑ AMD in Dresden: AMD Fab 30 and AMD Fab 36 ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Information on the AMD website, accessed October 25, 2009
- ↑ heise.de: AMD founds The Foundry Company and builds Fab 4X on October 7, 2008
- ↑ AMD is committed to Dresden factories - new contract manufacturer starts
- ↑ AMD closes research center in Dresden. In: heise online. November 8, 2012, accessed April 22, 2013 .
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