Well I bet you didn't know that your AMD came out of Germany. The Dresden community is very grateful to AMD for the over 2,000 jobs created by AMD Saxony Manufacturing GmbH (the name given to AMD?s Fab 30 and their Dresden Design Center), especially since over 90% of those jobs were filled by East German residents. But hey, now you can broaden your horizon by visiting Anandtech and follow them during their tour through Fab30. AMD invites you into the secret chambers... As we mentioned in the introduction, AMD Saxony is more than just Fab 30, it also encompasses AMD?s Dresden Design Center (DDC). The Dresden Design Center was started as AMD?s focus for chipset design, but now that their task is almost complete the DDC will shift to handling AMD?s PCS (Personal Connectivity Solutions) devices. The DDC?s concluding task at this point is the development of AMD?s 8th generation chipset logic, primarily the enabling chipsets for Athlon 64 and Opteron. With AMD?s 8000 series development complete and strong industry support to continue to develop future Athlon 64/Opteron chipsets, AMD can shift the focus of the DDC to other things.