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  • April 2008
    • AMD to Slash 10% of Jobs in '08

      AMD to Slash 10% of Jobs in '08

      (Newser) - Advanced Micro Devices will shed 10% of its workforce this year and predicts a 15% first-quarter revenue drop, down to $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. Slumping desktop sales and the company's line of defective chips and have hurt AMD, which will lay off workers worldwide at "all levels within the company," a spokesman told the San Jose Mercury News today. More »

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      Intel   job cuts   AMD   first quarter earnings   computer hardware   microchip   processor

  • March 2008
    • AMD Chip Brings Games to Mainstream

      AMD Chip Brings Games to Mainstream

      (Newser) - A new chip may make up-market graphics applications like graphics editing and video games accessible on mass-market computers, says maker AMD. The 780 series integrated graphics chip, announced Tuesday at the CeBIT trade show in Germany, makes use of technology acquired when AMD bought ATI Technologies in 2006. "It will be widely available" immediately, said an AMD VP. More »

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      AMD   computer graphics   processor

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