In today's highly competitive
environment, you need more than just outstanding technologies to achieve
your business goals. You need the right solutions — and you need them on
time, on budget, and in the appropriate quantities. At AMD, we understand
that these manufacturing issues can be vitally important to your bottom
line.
AMD maintains world-class manufacturing facilities (known as “fabs”) across
North America, Europe, and Asia. In every AMD facility, we use advanced
decision-making and control technologies to optimize, integrate, and automate
material processing at nearly every stage in the manufacturing process.
For more than 15 years, our handpicked team of manufacturing experts has
been developing AMD's unique approach, known as “Automated Precision Manufacturing”
(APM).
Our APM-powered fabs are run by a “central nervous system” consisting of
more than 200 AMD patented and patent-pending technologies that allow for
dynamic, real-time adjustments to the fab processes. This enables AMD to
maximize quality and efficiency, while giving us the ability to introduce
rapid, continuous product improvements without slowing production.
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how does APM automation and control specifically allow AMD to better
serve your needs today and in the future? |
- By keeping manufacturing costs low, and product performance
high, AMD can provide your business with the high-performance
solutions your users need at attractive price points.
- Because we can make rapid in-fab adjustments to what products
we're producing and how those products operate, AMD can closely
align our production with your supply chain requirements.
- APM has enabled AMD to achieve mature yields on our next-generation
processors faster than ever before. That means you can rest assured
we can deliver the products you need, when you need them.
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To discover more about Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM), click on
the links below:
What
makes APM different?
What's
next for AMD manufacturing?
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Design-for-Manufacturability Key to 90nm Success
To address emerging challenges that cannot be resolved through process optimization, comprehensive design-for-manufacturing (DFM) methodologies must be employed throughout the design flow to ensure correct-by-construction, process-aware designs.
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Dan Hutcheson, VLSI Research, on AMD's Manufacturing Competitiveness
"AMD's Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM) is one of the
cornerstones of its ability to compete against more modern 300mm
fabs. It does this not only by enabling greater efficiency,
it also enables higher baseline yields, better binning, and
faster yield learning, all of which drives product performance.
APM is essentially a massive factory control software suite."
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90nm Transition Going Smoothly
"AMD is achieving a smooth transition to 90 nanometer (nm) manufacturing and has shipped low-power 90nm Mobile AMD Athlon™ 64 processors for thin and light notebooks (previously codenamed "Oakville") for revenue."
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