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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. Ouch... by Whyte+Wolf · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Intel might be winning the chip wars here -- then again the G5 is comming out in January, and that should rock a few worlds :)

    (or you could buy yourself a giant 106 processor Sun box instead...)

    --

    Beware the Whyte Wolf.

    With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels...

  2. ouch by Yablo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    wow, that really fucking sucks.

    damn recession...