Monday, April 7th 2008
AMD plans to reduce workforce by 10%
In a disappointing but agreed upon move, AMD has decided to cut 10% of its workforce due to lower than expected first quarter financial results. The majority of business segments (mainly CPU) did not meet financial targets and in most cases lost money (again, mainly CPU). The cuts will hit all groups (including the ones that generated profit like the graphics division, albeit at a smaller scale).
AMD currently employs 16 000 in its workforce; a 10% cut will mean approximately 1600 people will be relieved. The cuts are expected to begin mid-April and finish by the end of the 3rd quarter of 2008.
Source:
BusinessWire
AMD currently employs 16 000 in its workforce; a 10% cut will mean approximately 1600 people will be relieved. The cuts are expected to begin mid-April and finish by the end of the 3rd quarter of 2008.
76 Comments on AMD plans to reduce workforce by 10%
-Hogan
Then I will Paint the streets Like AMD was there! :D
I need spray, black cloths, a mask, a light...
Hmm An a good slogen! But Somthing New, and Funky!
:rolleyes:
im quite happy with my amd system, and my next upgrade WILL be amd, i know some will say its stupid to go amd now, but amd has ALWASE treated me right, unlike intel where i have had to FIGHT to get a replacement chip from rma because they didnt have the model i sent back in avalable anymore, only higher end chips and they dont like giving u a free upgrade even if its only a side step from a 90 to 65nm chip with same perf.
I remember seeing it here on TPU. somebody tell that C*nt to stop f**king around & do his job otherwise it'l be HIS ass included on the next out bound choo choo train
AMD has advertised in the earlier 939 years - stuck their logos on a few games but not enough why cant they come up with something like the Nvidia game skit you usually see when booting up Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 with the old slogan "as it was ment to be played"
AMD really need to f**king buckle the f**k down & get their sh*t together & say f**k everyone & everything else, we are going to f**king start a revolution & reclaim back their rightful market share as well as giving Intel a run for their f**king wallets
you know what AMD? hire me as chief f**king motivator & I will make heads f**king role. I will beat you the the very last nanometer of your insignificant sh*tty lives until you release something that wouldnt make a good paper weight.
I want results not f**king exscuses.
even back when they had those posters it didnt help much, because they had no genral name recognition, tv is how you get that first, hence all the intel inside/core2 powered commercials with dell and the like, u do know that intel and dell work togather on those adds dont you?
if amd did the same thing maby they would become a known name insted of just being considered a "cheap intel knockoff" like alot of ppl think they are.
no joke i have acctualy had people tell me amd suck because they are just a cheap knockoff of intel, and that was when a64 was kicking the hell out of the p4/p-d, when i talked to those ppl there reasioning wasnt because they where intel fans, but because they didnt know that amd has been around a VERY long time and has acctualy invented some of the tech intel has been FORCED to use(x86-64) one of them ended up getting an amd based laptop just after turion 4000+ chips came out thanks to talking with me, at the time NOTHING intel had was close to as powerfull, and all the intel laptops had worse batt life and intagrated intel video, the turion had x600 onboard with its own 256mb ram(yeah yeah i know slow but better then any intagrated is)
Agree they had very few of those TV-commercials that Intel splurges on but the thing is, TV-commercials cost a bomb. AMD India ran a "Brilliance in multi-tasking" ad campaign and also held several contests and sweepstakes. Online .swf ads aren't that expensive and they did run the "Smash that hourglass" ads when they launched Athlon64 X2 but that dried up too. What does it indicate? Does it indicate a 'sucked forever' marketing dept. or does it indicate that AMD isn't investing on marketing? I'd choose the latter. Yes, when the board decides not to allocate any more funds on marketing, how can you blame the marketing dept?
The above article clearly shows how the 6400 is capable of scoring more, than few Core2s and even Q6600 at default speeds in few benchmarks. Only we overclockers know the difference when overclocked etc. Average/below average joe will know nothing about it. But Intel managed to spend a foturne to market their dumb ass Netburst and still spending a lot in marketing.
AMD needs to do that. Have confidence in their product line and start spending few more on the marketing.
According to my books PIII and A64 are the best invented architecture. Core2s are nothing but overclocked 2 PIII cores glued together. Don't know what good is that in terms of tech advancement? People are fond of just jumping over the fence without even knowing anything about where they are going.
Intel did nothing interms of tech advancement. Who got the first 64 bit? Who got the first energy efficient procs? Who got the integrated memory controller? Who got native Quad? And who bought the first unified HD decoder? -- All AMD/ATI.
Intel - they reinvented the global heater:D Intel is just following the foot steps of AMD and people believe Intel did everything. What an idiotic world we live in:shadedshu