AMD: 45 nano manufacturing on schedule
Advanced Micro Devices is not delaying 45-nanometer manufacturing, according to the company, which is trying to correct an erroneous report on a blog.
"We are still on track to produce the first (45-nanometer) products by mid-2008," said Gary Silcott, an AMD spokesman. The company will have "pretty good volumes" of 45-nanometer chips by the end of 2008, he added. The statement comes after a blog post on the Fabtech site. On its quarterly conference call, Eric Meurice, CEO of semiconductor equipment maker ASML, said that the initial wave of orders for immersion lithography tools, which many will use to make 45-nanometer chips, came from makers of NAND flash memory. DRAM makers just started ordering immersion tools. Meurice went onto say that orders from logic makers may not start arriving in volume until 2009.
