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Thursday November 20, 5:30 am ET
AMD has just announced Dresden, Germany, will be the site for a new advanced 300mm wafer plant. AMD Fab 36 will build the new Athlon 64 CPU's. The German federal and Saxony state governments will offer over $1.2 Billion in loans and over $500 million in straight grants. The factory would be the first new major chip plant in Europe in several years. AMD Fab 36 will employ over 1,000 high tech workers.
During World War 2, Dresden was a nonmilitary target. Dresden had virtually no anti-aircraft guns. Yet, its citizens suffered one of the most massive Allied night and day heavy bombing missions during the entire war. The entire city was set ablaze, burning ghostlike impressions of bodies into the sidewalks, and killing over 100,000 people.
AMD considered building the plant in East Fishkill, New York, but I guess the US federal and New York state governments didn't pony up the cash. This is yet another case of myopia for our USA governments. We spend $1 Billion every single week in Iraq for an unjustified and unfounded war. Ironic, isn't it? If, instead of going to war, we had spent that borrowed $1 Billion a week to create high tech factories, we would have a shortage of high tech labor right now. The only things hardliners bring are death and poverty. Germany smartly decided NOT to go to war. Perhaps they didn't believe the WMD tale. President Bush invaded Iraq because he claimed to the world at the UN and Congress Saddam Hussein had WMD's. Now we don't even hear about "WMD's" anymore.
AMD has just announced Dresden, Germany, will be the site for a new advanced 300mm wafer plant. AMD Fab 36 will build the new Athlon 64 CPU's. The German federal and Saxony state governments will offer over $1.2 Billion in loans and over $500 million in straight grants. The factory would be the first new major chip plant in Europe in several years. AMD Fab 36 will employ over 1,000 high tech workers.
During World War 2, Dresden was a nonmilitary target. Dresden had virtually no anti-aircraft guns. Yet, its citizens suffered one of the most massive Allied night and day heavy bombing missions during the entire war. The entire city was set ablaze, burning ghostlike impressions of bodies into the sidewalks, and killing over 100,000 people.
AMD considered building the plant in East Fishkill, New York, but I guess the US federal and New York state governments didn't pony up the cash. This is yet another case of myopia for our USA governments. We spend $1 Billion every single week in Iraq for an unjustified and unfounded war. Ironic, isn't it? If, instead of going to war, we had spent that borrowed $1 Billion a week to create high tech factories, we would have a shortage of high tech labor right now. The only things hardliners bring are death and poverty. Germany smartly decided NOT to go to war. Perhaps they didn't believe the WMD tale. President Bush invaded Iraq because he claimed to the world at the UN and Congress Saddam Hussein had WMD's. Now we don't even hear about "WMD's" anymore.