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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. Big Brother, Coming Soon by jkmiecik · · Score: 0, Troll

    This really affects the chip market. Intel will become even more dominant (!). Anyone see a MS-style monopoly down the road?

  2. Re:Who is that Gateway faggot with the ponytail? by simetra · · Score: 0, Troll

    He's Ask Maxwell's lover. http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/features/1999/1 2-16maxwell.asp

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