AMD Begins Shipping Processors from New Fab 36

[Jason]

MUNICH, Germany - April 4, 2006 - At a press conference held here today, AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced that in March it began first revenue shipments of AMD64 processors manufactured at Fab 36 in Dresden, Germany. AMD ramped the new 300 millimeter (mm) fab to 90 nanometer (nm) volume production in record time, hitting every major milestone on schedule and beginning production at mature yields.

The company also disclosed that it has been producing a significant
number of 65nm development test chips in parallel with 90nm products at
the fab, in preparation for volume 65nm production later this year. Fab
36 engineers, with the help of AMD's patented Automated Precision
Manufacturing (APM) systems, are constantly analyzing data collected
from the test chips and making consistent improvements. Fab 36 remains
on track to begin 65nm production shipments in the second-half of this
year, and be substantially converted to 65nm production by mid-2007.

It might just be time for me to pick up a few hundred shares of AMD. Ahhh 65nm goodness onits way.