page_title: ZMDI
section_title: 1969: Arbeitsstelle für Molekularelektronik Dresden (AMD)
hierarchical_section_title: ZMDI / 1969: Arbeitsstelle für Molekularelektronik Dresden (AMD)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Integrierter Schaltkreis D200C (entspricht 74H00), hergestellt von der Arbeitsstelle für Molekularelektronik Dresden (AMD), August 1970
context_page_description: Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden was regarded as the heart of East Germany's microelectronics research in the 1980s as well as its most advanced integrated circuit manufacturer. Together with TU Dresden and VEB Spurenmetalle Freiberg, ZMD formed the foundation for Silicon Saxony, a cluster of microelectronics companies that came to include new fabs by Siemens and AMD.
context_section_description: In 1969 the institute was renamed to Arbeitsstelle für Molekularelektronik Dresden (AMD). This should not be confused with the other, unrelated AMD which was also founded in 1969 and under the name AMD Saxony operated in Dresden from 1996 until 2009 when that plant became part of GlobalFoundries.
  When Erich Honecker replaced Walter Ulbricht as the General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in 1970, the new economic doctrine of the “unity of economic and social policy” lead to a sharp reduction in investment in the microelectronics industry (in 1974 only 68.4% of its 1970 value). In 1973, AMD was forced to implement a "staff reduction policy". This course was reversed only in 1977.
  In 1973, AMD produced the first working samples of the PMOS integrated circuit U820D for electronic calculators (6000 transistors, 6 µm process). By 1974, AMD had grown to 950 employees. Prof. Hartmann, who had led the institute since 1961, was forced to leave by the Ministry for State Security in 1974.
caption: Integrated circuit D200C (equivalent to 74H00), manufactured by AMD in August 1970
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