AMD Fab 25 Austin Texas

[SirThomaas]

I worked in this fab for almost 7 years, at the time I was there, we were the sole producers of AMD K5, K6, and the earliest of the K7 (Athlon branded) CPU's before processor production was moved over to Dresden, Germany. Now this fab just makes mostly flash memory and maybe a mix of minor CPG lines and is operated under the Spansion monicker.

[truthseekers666]

As a PC engineer I have replaced or scrapped more AMD processors than anything else because they overheat and seems to burn out. I think AMD should look at putting in thermal cut offs into their products.

[LarryLane07]

I wonder what class cleanroom that is. Looks like about a class100 or ISO4?

[tamburich]

@LarryLane07

US FED Class 1 During certifications it actually passed as a subclass 1 that would be a ISO 2 class. Every 7 seconds the air of 2 football fields is filtered. The entire clean room is surrounded by a 10K corridor .

[SirThomaas]

@LarryLane07 this is a class 1 clean room, I worked in Fab25 for 7 years

[cellphonelightsaber]

Long live the Arrow.

[xXjack4522Xx]

I wish i had that machine at 1:06 just to get condoms when i was going out with kids ...

[GoldenDragi]

SOOOO MINDBLOWING

[edgeman09]

What size are the wafers? 8 inch?

[Enrage13]

300mm or 11.8 inches.

[w00tDr]

Are you sure? Supposedly, Fab 25 was only 200mm wafers.

[dempss]

stone age. Looks like something from mork and mindy. U should see the new fabs

[ROTZGOERE11]

i think my discman is more stoneage than that. ;.)

[madamerotten]

Each pancake is large enough to serve 10 hungry people.

[nathanrs10]

they have to keep the rooms clean a single flake of dust could destroy a processor

[AmnAbdulla9]

great! is this where the microprocessor chips are made?

[mchou2002]

This factory was state of the art way back in 1995.

[eliden]

use ibm or raytheon military processors on a desktop... gg amd and intel!

[napyuu]

incredible, these fabs themselves are marvels of engineering!

[janusultor]

I really hate to ruin the deafening silence of this masterpiece with comment, all the same, try to view this as an artpiece. The absence of sound of any kind was pure genius. Many thanks.

The outdoor bit at the end also...perfectly placed and stinging of irony. Please make more.