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    News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    AMD restructures by laying-off 10 per cent of workforce in an attempt to reach $200 million 2012 operational savings.
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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    Its the onlything left that can optimize but I woudn't worry too much, looking at how AMD 'optimised' Bulldozer there wont be many people out of jobs.
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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    I feel sorry for the people loosing their jobs especially so near to Christmas! However,a company cutting jobs during a recession is a big shock to some people?? Really?? Also this happening after a new CEO too?? Big shock!!

    AMD shed 5% of its workforce in 2008. Intel shed 10000 jobs in 2006 followed by another 6000 in 2009 and the company was still very profitable at the time,ie, they did this since the chaps in charge considered that their profits were not good enough.

    In fact AMD had 11000 employees in early 2010 and now has 12000. It looks like the new CEO is trying to get employee count down to around the 2010 level it seems.

    The chap now in charge is the same guy who helped transform Lenovo into one of the biggest PC makers in the world.

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    Its the onlything left that can optimize but I woudn't worry too much, looking at how AMD 'optimised' Bulldozer there wont be many people out of jobs.
    So what about its other CPUs namely Zacate and Llano which have been extremely sucessful?? They are unoptimised according to your expert opinion. What about their graphics cards?? Right, so using your logic AMD graphics are also unoptimised.

    It seems these new unoptimised products have actually become more popular than their previous ones:

    http://www.dailytech.com/AMDs+Q3+Pro...ticle23137.htm
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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    Traditionally AMD has always been the value-for-money choice, rarely do its CPUs outperform Intel's ...
    Are we forgetting that is was only five years ago that AMD's finest processors were handing Intel's their rears and cost $999? I don't think a trend of 4 - 5 years really counts as a "tradition", does it?

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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    +1, when big changes happen the market will tip one way or the other, and it goes back and forth. Core was an incredibly successful architecture but let's not forget ia64 vs x86-64 for example - both giants win some, lose some, and complacency has proven to be a dangerous thing in the CPU world.

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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    I still remember the first PC I purchased...it was second hand and it had an AMD 386-40 CPU.....when intel only made a 386-33....the AMD was a licensed copy as well.

    I think that was around 91/92
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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    looks like the bulldozer team are needing new jobs....

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    Re: News - AMD looks to 'optimize' by cutting 10% of workforce

    Quote Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH View Post

    So what about its other CPUs namely Zacate and Llano which have been extremely sucessful?? They are unoptimised according to your expert opinion. What about their graphics cards?? Right, so using your logic AMD graphics are also unoptimised.

    It seems these new unoptimised products have actually become more popular than their previous ones:

    http://www.dailytech.com/AMDs+Q3+Pro...ticle23137.htm

    oooowww



    I was talking about buldozer, I didn't say anything about any other product...
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