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AMD To Close Plants, Lay off 2300, Lose Gateway
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.'"
I'd heard that they pulled it off the market when they found out that the terrorists had trained with it. Can you verify?
science is a religion
How is it flamebait to mention that Microsoft is going strong, while other people in this thread mentioned the same about Apple? Moderators, just because you don't agree with a statement doesn't mean it's not true, nor that it's not worth seeing by other people.
This should be modded insightful too. I took a look at last year's gas bills and I used quite a bit less in the winter. Probably my two AMD machines are quite capable of heating up my little apartment :)
- They can't claim AMD is not stable enough.
- They can't claim that the users don't want AMD in their systems.
- They can't claim anything negative about the pricing of AMD parts (especially if you compare with Intel).
- They can't claim they don't have enough support from AMD nor AMD are playing dirty IP games with them.
I say, screw you Gateway, you did enough stupid moves in your life, Trashing the amiga community when you we're backed up by all the loyal fans and could have had a nice platform to sell, you acted completely like hypocrites, hiring people sometimes from another country, make their live miserable about a year later, and now you're bailing on AMD after convincing people how good it is? I mean, taking computer for a religion is pathetic, I'll admit it, but acting like you are is completely un-ethical and shows who's milking you. "Gateway, building lifelong relationships" well I sincerely hope your company lives "lifelong" too, whatever that means.
I don't want to see a gateway laptop, I don't want to ever see a desktop, hell! I don't even want to see a MUG comming from your company, the hell with you, you had your chance, you messed up two times, and two major times. People will remember you when you'll see the Hammer family out and some companies making profit. AMD will never say no to buisness opportunities, even if you dropped them. Buisness is buisness... too bad, some consumers don't think like that, and it happens that some computer-literate people have more and more power over purchasing decisions, be sure I'll use mine.
--- Metamoderating abusive downgraders since my 300th post.