AMD Puts Customer at Center of Chip Manufacturing in ISMI Opening Keynote Addres

Dr. Douglas Grose, AMD Senior Vice President of Manufacturing, TechnologyDevelopment and Supply Chain, Calls on Industry to Rethink InvestmentPriorities

Dr. Douglas Grose, senior vice president of manufacturing, technologydevelopment and supply chain at AMD, will describe what he and a growing listof industry leaders see as strategic imperatives for the Next GenerationFactory (NGF). "The industry can adopt a vision here today to better meetcustomers' needs with accuracy, agility and efficiency, in addition to themore traditional route of making wafers larger and transistors smaller," saidGrose.

Dr. Grose's speech extends an ongoing NGF dialogue with integratedcircuit manufacturers, material suppliers, tool vendors and industry analystson how to maximize utilization of existing 300mm technologies and facilitiesbefore moving onto a larger, 450mm wafer size.

Building on its pioneering efforts in the adoption of Lean techniques andAutomated Precision Manufacturing in semiconductor factories, AMD is joiningwith industry partners, including ISMI, to develop new tools and processes forfurther streamlining both front-end and back-end production. For example,current practice across the industry is to move wafers through the processsteps in 25 wafer batches, but most of the tools can only process a few oreven one wafer at a time, greatly increasing the amount of time it takes toprocess an entire 25 wafers, slowing the delivery to the customer andextending time-to-revenue for the manufacturer. Small Lot Manufacturing (SLM)and Single Wafer Tools (SWT) are proposed changes that would greatly improvemanufacturing efficiency, but requires an industry-wide shift in thinking.Collaborating on addressing this issue and others magnifies the impact bydistributing investments of time, talent and money across all the parties thatultimately benefit.

AMD's operations have already benefited from these NGF concepts. At AMD'sFab 30 in Dresden, Germany, AMD has realized significant cost and timesavings, including a 26 percent reduction in monthly wafer costs, a 31 percentincrease in wafer output and a 72 percent increase in labor productivity.

"With a disciplined focus on what's really important - delivering theproducts our customers want at the right time, at the right cost - we'realready seeing impressive results across AMD, but we've only realized afraction of the full potential of the Next Generation Factory," said Grose."Our industry's future will be determined by our ability to make smartdecisions and unite behind a common vision."

         Who: Dr. Douglas Grose, Senior Vice President of Technology               Development, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, AMD        What: Keynote address: A Call to Action on the Next Generation               Factory        When: Wednesday, October 24, 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. CDT       Where: 4th ISMI Symposium on Manufacturing Effectiveness              Hilton Austin Airport              Austin, Texas              http://ismi.sematech.org/ismisymposium/    

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