AMD PURCHASES YIELD DYNAMICS SOFTWARE FOR WORLDWIDE YIELD MANAGEMENT.Yield Dynamics, Inc. has announced that Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. has purchased its Genesis yield management software for deployment across all of AMD's integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. sites worldwide. The multi-million dollar order encompasses 100 enterprise software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. that have been installed and integrated at AMD's Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany, Fab 25 in Austin, Texas and the Sub-Micron Development Center in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . Charles Clark, Director of Global Manufacturing Systems for AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , stated, "AMD, as a leader in the engineering analysis arena for many years, is collaborating with Yield Dynamics in the use of their Genesis product. After an extensive search of commercial offerings, AMD's engineering community selected the Genesis tool to assist in increasing our manufacturing effectiveness. The power of the advanced technologies it is able to apply, coupled with the ability to integrate with AMD's SAPPHiRE engineering database, makes the product an effective system to support our worldwide user base." The Genesis system will add several important new methodologies to AMD's manufacturing processes. These include data mining algorithms to automatically identify causes of difficult classes of yield issues, spatial signature analysis software to detect spatial patterns on wafers and correlate these signatures to the process equipment and operating conditions that may have caused them, and the complete integration and cross-correlation of defect and process data. "We are pleased to collaborate with AMD on yield management issues," stated Dr. Jonathan Buckheit, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Chairman of Yield Dynamics. "AMD has been a pioneer in this area, and the mutual effort of the two companies to stay at the leading edge of this technology has resulted in stronger Genesis product capabilities and increased customer value." |
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