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From EE Times of 12 Jun 2006:

AMD to invest $2.5 billion in new Dresden fab
Advanced Micro Devices said Monday (May 29) it will invest $2.5 billion in its fabs here [Dresden], adding a new 300-mm fab to replace an existing 200-mm facility that will be closed. AMD said the expansion will quadruple its processor production here within the next 30 months.

Construction of the new Fab 38 will not require an entirely new factory. Instead, AMD plans a thorough transformation of Fab 30. ... At the same time, the company will increase the capacity of existing 300-mm fab 36 by 25 percent to 25,000 monthly wafer starts. Fab 36 was launched in October 2005.

... By the end of next year, the new facility will produce 20,000 wafer starts a month at full capacity.

Combined, AMD's Dresden fabs will produce 45,000 wafers a month. According to plans announced here, the new fabs initially will produce 65-nm chips, but AMD will switch to 45-nm process technology by mid-2008 and eventually move to 32 nm.