Advanced Micro Devices Inc has produced its first copper K6 chips and is expecting to produce 1GHz Athlon CPUs using copper interconnects by the end of the year. The chips are being produced by AMD’s new production facility, ‘Fab 30’, based in Dresden, Germany.
In interview with the German web site Heise Online, the plant’s manager Hans Deppe, said that he was happy with the first K6 batches using the copper technology but would not reveal what the yield was. Staff at the plant expect the first batches of Athlons with clock speeds of 1GHz or over by the end of this year or early 2000. The Dresden plant was opened in February of this year. It has a staff of 850.
