By Antone Gonsalves March 4, 2009
GlobalFoundries, the chip-manufacturing spin-off of Advanced Micro Devices, officially opened for business Wednesday and laid out its preparations for moving to next-generation 32-nanometer products. The joint venture of AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Co. said it will expand its Dresden, Germany, manufacturing capacity by bringing a second facility online in late 2009. Called Fab 1, the Dresden complex will dedicate one of its two facilities to making 45-nm chips, which AMD is in the process of transitioning its products to, and the other to 32-nm processors. The numbers refer to the size of the microprocessor circuitry. The smaller the size, the more transistors can be placed on a piece of silicon, which translates into much higher performance without increasing power consumption. The move to 32-nm is seen as the next big jump in processor performance. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.
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