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AMD To Lay Off 10% of Global Workforce
Luyseyal writes "Advanced Micro Devices Inc. slashed its global employment by 1,400 jobs Thursday as the company seeks to boost profits and re-balance its work force to pursue new product areas. This amounts to over 11% of its global workforce, including Mark Langsdorf, who often posts AMD patches to the Linux Kernel Mailing List."
Man, if anyone's "too big to fail" it's the second largest company in a critical industry with just two major players. Maybe that would be too small too fail. Whatever.
Intel's certainly done well at keeping up a legitimate release schedule in the last five years, especially for a company with no real competition at all, but I'd hate to see the world where Intel suddenly gets that last 20% of processor market share by default. Their prices aren't exactly low to begin with.
I mean really, what's the most recent company that had any real development capability and brand presence besides those two? Cyrix? Via?
A world without AMD would suck...
GOP has no sympathies for California companies. Didn't you get the memo? AMD and Intel are blocks from each other, in Silicon Valley, California. Either one could founder and they'd hardly bat an eye ... but if they were banks, well, that's another matter entirely - bail them out and then spread disinformation it was themocrats what were behind it and wasting the people's money.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Hey look, another stupid post from Joe Dragon!
Amd give alot more MB / chipset choice then intel.
Yeah, because the 396 different Intel desktop motherboards to choose from on Newegg makes it impossible to have any choice.