AMD To Sample 90nm CPUs In Q2 2004

AMD is scheduled to deliver chip samples using a90nm manufacturing process on 8-inch wafers in the second quarter of next year.The chip samples will be cranked out from AMD’s Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. Thefab, which uses a 0.13-micron process, will migrate to 90nm in the second halfof 2004. AMD hoped to ramp up 90nm chip production in the second quarter of nextyear, but has delayed that schedule by two to three months. San Diego, the 90nmsuccessor of the current Athlon 64 FX for high performance desktops andWinchester, the 90nm successor of Athlon 64 for mainstream desktops will arrivein H2 2004. For servers, 90nm Athens, Troy and Venus will arrive at the sametime. AMD does not have plans to outsource processors to any wafer foundry inthe immediate future. Instead, AMD is building a new 12-inch wafer fab, calledFab 36, adjacent to Fab 30. The new fab is projected to start cranking out13,000 wafers per month on a 65nm process in 2006.