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AMD To Close Plants, Lay off 2300, Lose Gateway

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the buy-your-durons-now dept.

cdrudge writes: "According to this article on CNN, AMD will be closing 2 plants in Austin, TX and also their operations in Penang, Malaysia due to slack demand. 2300 jobs will be cut in the process. The same article mentions Gateway dropping it's 'Select' line of computers. Their 'Select' line of computers were Gateway's only AMD-based systems. A Gateway spokesperson said 'We're consolidating all of our offering behind Intel, which was the biggest part of our mix already.'"

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  1. Hey if that still fails by SpanishInquisition · · Score: 5, Funny

    They can still enter the 'heating componment' market.

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    Je t'aime Stéphanie
    1. Re:Hey if that still fails by orangesquid · · Score: 2, Funny

      You know, I read this article title as "AMD to Close Pants, ..." the first time I glanced at it...

      AMD, you little heat-whore, you :) They could go into the toasters business....

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  2. Incentive by Rev.LoveJoy · · Score: 3, Funny
    Stock in Rambus?

    ... kidding...
    - rlj

  3. Re:Any company? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    when the public learns

    Public doesn't learn anything.

    Public is stupid.

    Public does what it is told. Or else it gets the hose again.

  4. sexy "Intel Inside" logo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I always thought the Intel Inside sticker was a warning label.

  5. Re:Engineering Acumen vs. Market Share by Jburkholder · · Score: 2, Funny
    >sheer engineering acumen (AMD).

    yah, now if they could just figure out how to keep the heatsinks from falling off so that the processors don't fry in, like, 1/4 second.

    *ducks*

  6. Re:Capitalism in Action by zhensel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your forgetting that it's mid-september and this kid just aced his first econ 101 test. Let the flurrish of economic knowledge continue.

  7. I first read the topic as by Yosho · · Score: 3, Funny

    "AMD to Close Pants, Lay --" at this point I did a double-take and realized my error, but still, it was amusing.

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  8. Blame it on the Gateway cow! by peter303 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In those recent Gateway TV commercial a cow has
    been telling the Gateway CEO how to run his business.