US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is scheduled to deliver chip samples using a 90nm manufacturing process on 8-inch wafers in the second quarter of next year, Christopher Bode, manager for AMD's AMP (automated precision manufacturing) development, said in Taipei yesterday.

The chip samples will be cranked out from AMD's Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany. The fab, which uses a 0.13-micron process, will migrate to 90nm in the second half of 2004, Bode said.

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