AMD manufacturing plans fuzzy

The future of AMD's asset-light manufacturing strategy remained detail-light on Thursday, reports News.com.

There has been lots of speculation about AMD's manufacturing plans this year, as the company has posted heavy losses, and it has intensified since CEO Hector Ruiz made comments about possible changes to the company's strategy on its first-quarter earnings conference call.

But AMD hasn't shared any plans about its future mix of manufacturing capacity during its second-quarter earnings call earlier this month, or Thursday's technology analyst meeting.

Reed Exhibitions, owner and organiser of National Manufacturing Week (NMW), has purchased Manufacturing Technology InFocus exhibition from Diversified Exhibitions Australia, says Ferret.com.

As a result, Manufacturing Technology InFocus - and its associated events Automate, Austronics and Electrix - will be incorporated within NMW from 2008, providing Australia's manufacturing industry with a single "one-stop show" servicing the entire sector.

Next year's edition of NMW will take place at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, during May.

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Printed Electronics: A Manufacturing Technology Analysis and Capacity Forecast to its offering, according to Business Wire.

The printable electronics industry has seen several high-profile manufacturing related announcements in the past few months. As these come online, it opens up new possibilities for this emerging market, but also new questions, since the PE business is now in a position to engage in supply side forecasting and analysis for several layers of the value chain.

The answers to these questions are important to materials firms planning their ink and substrate products, equipment manufacturers assessing their opportunities in the PE space, device manufacturers considering which products to introduce, and to investors considering the viability of the PE business.