The new plant will mark AMD's only U.S.-based chip fabrication facility Advanced Micro Devices will open a $3.2 billion chip fabrication plant in New York State to produce 300-millimeter wafer chips, it said on Friday in a joint announcement with New York state officials.The plant will be headquartered in Luther Forest Technology Park, in Saratoga County, New York, and is expected to employ some 1,200 employees as well as create thousands of other jobs, said New York Governor George Pataki. It will mark AMD’s only U.S.-based chip fabrication plant.Last month, AMD said it would spend $2.5 billion to expand its chip manufacturing operations in Dresden, Germany. As part of that expansion, the company plans to upgrade an existing plant, called Fab 30, from 200mm to 300mm wafer production, and to expand production at an existing 300mm plant, called Fab 36. Worldwide semiconductor sales are expected to grow by nearly 10 percent to about $249.6 billion in 2006, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. Technology Industry