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AMD Manufacturing Leadership 2005 A Customer-Centric Innovator Expand connections with customers, partners and end users Evolve beyond products and technologies to solutions Customers are at the Strive to enable customer center of everything we do. differentiation at ever-declining costs 2 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Fundamentally Changing the Way the Industry Manufactures AMD has created an entirely new and differentiated manufacturing model It emphasizes speed, accuracy and agility across AMD’s manufacturing operations to better respond to, and fulfill, the needs of our customers We call it Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM) You can think of it as manufacturing operations deliberately tuned to accurately deliver what customers need, when they need it Faster Faster intro of Better quality Greater customer advanced and higher capacity response technologies efficiencies flexibility 3 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Continuous Technology Improvement Introduction of improved transistor designs into high- volume manufacturing on a quarterly basis 65nm 90nm Node 8+ Common transistor Node 8 learning 90nm to 65nm Node 7+ Node 7 • Device Scaling nce a Node 6+ • Junction engineering • Mobility enhancement Node 6 (Strain engineering) Perform 2005 2006 2007 4 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership APM: Unique Technology Framework Over 400 AMD patented or patent-pending technologies Highly automated and Equipment synchronized decision Performance making Optimization Five integrated algorithmic Yield Product analysis systems — much Management Performance Systems APM Targeting more than just APC Framework Includes proprietary technologies, logic and Integrated Advanced business processes Production Process Scheduling Control Fed by fab-wide tool and data integration 5 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership AMD is Leading, the Industry is Following “AMD has a leadership position in process control automation. They have developed a comprehensive suite of software to automate fab operations.” November 2003 edition of CPU Magazine, Gartner APMAPM 3.03.0 analyst Bob Johnson quoted FirstFirst toto FullFull FabFab Synchronization*Synchronization* APMAPM 2.02.0 20062006 && BeyondBeyond FirstFirst toto AutoAutomamatedted • Virtually All Processes Decision Making APMAPM 1.51.5 Decision Making Automatically FirstFirst toto Fab-WideFab-Wide 19951995 -- 20062006 Controlled DatDataa IntegrationIntegration • Extensive Tool Linking • Intelligent Wafer LateLate 80s80s –– 19951995 • Integrated Data Routing with Agent • Network Creation Analysis Based Scheduling and Tool Linking • Data Shared Among • Automated Tool-to- • Database All Five Systems Tool Delivery Centralization • Increasing Levels of • Wafer Level and Die- • Isolated Data Automated Recipe Level Control Mining Adjustment *AMD Estimate 6 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Fab-Wide Tool and Data Integration All critical tool sets within AMD fabs are networked and integrated into the APM framework APM constantly monitors the health of all tools as well as the current health of all chips in production Using this information, APM can automatically adjust chip recipes to account for small but critical changes in tool performance 7 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Example: “Critical Dimension” Control “Critical Dimension” (a.k.a. “Gate Length”) Adjusting the critical dimension on each transistor results in a performance change in the resulting chip There are over 200 million transistors in the current dual- core AMD Opteron™ processor 8 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Example: “Critical Dimension” Control Using APM, AMD can rapidly, accurately and automatically make adjustments as small as 1nm (60 thousand times smaller than a human hair) to the critical dimension ... In every transistor In every chip On every wafer That’s roughly 21 billion transistors per wafer* * Based on production of 90nm AMD Opteron processors on 200mm wafers 9 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Example: Feed Forward, Feed Backward Correction Tool A Tool B APM Processing automatically variability Pod A corrects the discovered variability at by APM at this step this step To all other To all other Data upstream Data downstream tools tools Process change is populated fab-wide (upstream and Process and tool downstream) to parameters are stop future errors constantly tracked and before they start analyzed by APM 10 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Sneak Peek at APM 3.0: Agent Based Scheduling Tool to tool automated delivery creates Smart Pods thousands of possible ? processing paths ? Which is the most ? efficient and cost effective path based on customer requirements? Software agents are used to enable pod to tool negotiation on the optimal processing path based on current tool and wafer states 11 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership APM Operational Benefits Speed + Accuracy + Agility Rapid product Rapid transition to improvements in current products in new technology generation technology generations • Quarterly transistor • Fast, smooth transitions using the performance/power upgrades in most advanced submicron MPUs — five last year alone structures and materials • Rapid and consistent increase in • Consistent reduction in time to production yields on new mature yields on new products in products in the same technology the next technology generation generation 12 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Faster Technology Introduction In-Fab Research APM enables faster Learning 1 transitions to new 2 New submicron technology generations Mixed mode technologies R&D manufacturing for and achievement of accelerated learning mature yields 80% reduction in time to mature yield over the past three generations Customers can introduce Volume Mature their latest, highest Production Yields performing, highest 3 4 margin products sooner Volume production Yield entitlement initiated achieved 13 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Faster Yield Ramp, Generation After Generation Mature yield achieved Mature yield achieved ~40 percent faster than ~66 percent faster than previous generation previous generation Mature Yield r Yield e f a W 90nm SOI Technology 130nm SOI Technology 130nm Bulk Technology Production Volume 14 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership More Agile Customer Response APM enables more agile Retargeting Input changes to production mix and product 2 1 power/performance Product production Customer expresses targeting redefined need for product targets change Today: from input to implementation in Customers can more less than a day accurately match product supply with Adaptation Implementation demand to take full advantage of near-term 3 4 Fab process updated Production with new revenue opportunities targets and process begins 15 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Faster Processing Cycle Times Once changes are implemented, APM helps deliver them to customers faster Industry Worst Industry Average Industry Best AMD Fab 30 ing Layer Days Per Mask 2003 -2004 Sources: AMD & Sematech 16 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Flexibility to Changing Demand APM allows flexible reprioritization of products already started in production Q2 2004 Example As of the first week of the quarter, the plan for Product A was 1.6M. By mid-quarter it was clear that demand in the market was stronger. Our customers wanted more! Through flexible APM scheduling AMD increased the availability of Product A 30% to 2.1M by the end of the quarter. 17 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Better Quality and Higher Efficiencies Variability Variability APM enables more Isolated Identified accurate identification 2 1 and correction of Cause is identified Off-target processing processing variability discovered Today: solutions identified often in Customers can better a matter of hours forecast and achieve Solution Process supply chain Identified Updated requirements due to consistent delivery 3 4 Process change is Solution volumes determined implemented 18 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Rock Solid Yield Consistency 19 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership APM is More than Great Technology Seamless blending of the best people and the best technologies is what makes APM so successful Unique Unique Technology APM Employee Framework Skill Sets 20 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership APM: Unique Employee Skill Sets Thousands of AMD employees developing, implementing and using APM technologies A highly skilled and Process & talented workforce Equipment Engineering Yield Integration Uniquely trained in Engineering Engineering using and developing APM Skill Sets APM technologies Operating in both Industrial Automation Engineering & Control Germany and the US Engineering 21 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Ongoing Success in Saxony Dresden: One of Europe’s largest microelectronics clusters Center of operations for AMD microprocessor fabrication Tremendous ongoing success for AMD, The Free State of Saxony, and Germany Over 7,000 jobs directly or indirectly created by AMD since 1996 22 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership AMD Fab 30: Delivering on the Promise AMD’s flagship 200mm fab today producing all AMD64 and AMD Sempron™ processors All AMD64 wafer starts converted to 90nm by mid-2005 Dual-core AMD64 processors shipping for revenue 23 v3.5 3Q05 AMD Manufacturing Leadership Highly Successful 90nm Technology Transition High yield at start of volume production Builds on 130nm SOI success 90nm 130nm 115mm2 Increased thermal 193mm2 efficiencies Significant die-size reductions Addition of strained