AMD to cut 1,100 workers, 9 percent of staff
Advanced Micro Devices plans to cut 1,100 jobs, 9 percent of its global staff, and slash the remaining employees’ pay as the chip maker hopes its third round of layoffs in a year can help it get through a brutal market for computer sales. The Sunnyvale company said Friday that 900 workers will have their positions cut. The rest of the reductions are coming from attrition and the previously announced sale of a business unit.
The company has 15,000 workers, but it is spinning off its manufacturing operations, which have 3,000 employees who are not affected by Friday’s announcement. So AMD’s cut of 1,100 jobs amounts to 9 percent of the remaining 12,000 workers. The dismissals represent AMD’s third round of major layoffs in the last year. AMD cut 600 workers just last month, and earlier in 2008 jettisoned 1,600.
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