AMD breaks ground on new chip plant

TalkBack 5 of 5:

« Previous

• Thread View
• Flat View

RE: Nice to see

I believe AMD's Fab 25 facility is located in Austin, TX where the company was founded. As the story states though, pretty much all of their chips now come from Dresden.

I think AMD would have liked to have built the new plant in another location in order to have greater fault tolerance against things such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, etc. but as the story states the German government was offering a great deal of incentive in the way of loans and grants. That is a hard offer to pass up and AMD probably figured that those extra incentives were worth the minimal risk of having both plants located in such a geographically close proximity to each other.

P.S. Now if Germany were the Middle East, I think it would be totally different issue for AMD ;?)

Posted by: Cyberj10   Posted on: 11/21/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

Alert moderator to an offensive message

Subscribe to this discussion via Email or RSS

SponsoredWhite Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads

• Three Steps You Need to Know to Stop Data Loss Varonis Sensitive data exposed to misuse or loss... it is the stuff of nightmares ... Download Now
• Why Isn't Server Virtualization Saving Us More? A Few Small Changes May Dramatically Increase Your Efficiency VMware Companies have rapidly adopted server virtualization over the past few ... Download Now
• Building the Virtualized Enterprise with VMware Iinfrastructure VMware VMware virtualization software has been adopted by over 120,000 enterprise ... Download Now