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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.'"

3 of 457 comments (clear)

  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
  2. 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.

  3. 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.