It's simple:
- Multicores that need bigger dice, and drastically reduce yields.
- Proximity to the silicon processing partner, IBM
- The Albany Technology Park
- Highest qualified people available a plenty
- Greatest Communications/transportation Hub of the entire world
- Increasing Market Share
- Technology Leadership
- And a bit of help from the State of New York.
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PLease explain 4th factory math:
NY, F36 and F38/30
Note - F38 is not a new fab it is a conversion of (read - replacing) F30
Fab30(/38), Fab36, Chartered 7, NY.
Don't get me wrong, I am stretching the numeration because when I posted "Third Factory..." The news were so fresh that it wasn't clear that it was refurbishing Fab30, and I didn't understand so well the "Bump and Test" facility that was going to be built between Fab30(/38) and Fab36.
With that, we can be talking about 5 factories. Since there are some Hindu investors building yet another fab, perhaps AMD could have soon production capacity from 5 fabs plus a bump and test facility.
F30 = F38... how are you now getting to 5?!?!?
There will be 3 Si chip producing AD fabs (F36, F30/38 and the not yet built NY fab)
Does five seem outrageous to you?
What about Six (6) production facilities!?:
* Fab30/38
* Fab36
In the process of producing revenue wafers:
* Chartered 7
Projected:
* Semindia (http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20051219/market04.shtml
* New York Albany Technology Park
And
* Dresden "Bump and Test"
Does this satisfy you?
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