Colorful Silicon 300mmm Wafer Background Fab 36 is situated directly next to AMD's only other CPU manufacturing plant, Fab 30, in Dresden, Germany. Fab 30 manufactures 200mm wafers, while Fab 36 is capable of making wafers 300mm in diameter. 300 mm wafers have more than twice the surface area of 200 mm wafers, so they can hold quite a few more chips. Better economies of scale at 300mm make for much lower costs per chip than 200mm fabs, so Fab 36 is a nice boost for AMD. There are different ver