AMD Preparing For More Layoffs
AMD employees are not getting much room to breathe these days. In addition to the 1,700 people that were just cut recently, AMD will be laying off an undisclosed number of people in the first half of 2013.
According to AMD, more pink slips are the result of previously announced restructuring actions to be taken over the next few months and while the number of cuts is believed to be smaller this time around, and while AMD apparently will not be letting anyone go before Christmas, there are certainly better news than having to look for a new job in the new year.
AllThings Digital refers to a few internal sources and states that AMD may be trying to get some of the layoffs right it did not get right before. Apparently, AMD is dealing with a dynamic environment at the moment, with no layoffs taking place before the leadership knows how many people are willing to leave voluntarily. Of course, such a policy may not help to boost an already low morale inside the company and some painful decisions may be dragged out rather than being done.
The layoff story adds to a rather interesting rumor that AMD is shopping for a buyer. AMD carefully denied that rumor, blaming it on a recurring phenomenon in the media. In a statement, the company said: "AMD is not actively pursuing a sale of the company or significant assets at this time." That statement may be the best description of AMD's leadership problem at this time: AMD's strategy and future is about as transparent as the meaning of "actively pursuing".
AMD's leadership has yet to describe a clear path to its employees and the outside how it intends to turn the company around. Even with reaffirmed notes that the company is on the right path, it's difficult to understand what AMD actually does. Our sources at AMD told us that it is not much better on the inside.
AMD does not need more bad news, delays and certainly not more blurry statements. AMD needs a clear message more than ever before.
Of course then they'd probably bail on PCs alltogether, or Nintendo buy them
picture a core 2 Quad at 4 ghz or 1st gen i7 with with 6770 intergrated
its coming sooner than later.
The hawell die shrink is uninteresting to me cause my pc is large and I don`t mind the juice but I feel the intel intergrated gpu seriosly lack in performance is greater than the amd cpu lack in performance and as hd everything keeps stepping forward not today but in 2 years amd will come about
I run intel but intergrated gpu they have sucks
Nintendo buy AMD? One, Nintendo is a dying company and is bleeding money. AMD actually has a better chance of survival than Nintendo. In both cases you want to short these companies unless rumours of takeovers start to happen.
I hope they get it together. Hopefully they can pull quite a bit of cash from the next gen consoles.
They should just hurry up, make the cuts they need, and then get their employees back to making the best products they can make. Employees who are constantly worried about losing their jobs aren't going to make outstanding products.
First of all noone is going to buy amd. Their gpu division might get sold, their patents on cpus or gpus or everything else that they have innovated might also get sold but NOT amd. who will buy a cpu manufacturer who cannot sell their x86 license. If a company wants to buy AMD then that company has to get the name of AMD for the x86 license to be active.
Secondly, emirates has a % of amd, they have money to spend and invest and amd has potential.
i can't continue i got to shit, c ya
In this market, "good" just doesn't cut it. They need "excellent". The new FX series barley puts it at or above Sandy Bridge, Intels previous gen part.
They need to make money and to make money they need a product that can sell not only well to consumers but also in the big money markets like servers where they charge much more than $250 for a CPU.
The problem I see with TSMC manufacturing is that TSMC already does it for NVidia and AMDs GPUs. They don't have the best silicone either. Remember the limited availability of both the HD7970/7950 and GTX680?
As well AMD has no control over the manufacturing side of it so if the process sucks and yields suck, they get the short end of that stick.
I still think its a mistake for AMD to have spun its fabrication side off since they lose control over their product beyond the design.
AMD wont be sold to someone like Apple who would only use the designs for their products. AMD needs to be what they are to help compete with Intel.
Because they are bleeding money. They haven't had a winnig design CPU wise and the HD7 series is the firt GPU design that truly has an edge on NVidia. They are not able to make money thus they need to make cuts to cut areas of losses.
Just like Ford, for example. When they were doing bad, they started making cuts by selling off assets that didn't make them money (like Aston Martin etc) and then restructured and started to pull from their superior European line of cars (2012 Focus, Fiesta and now the 2013 Fusion).
AMD will survive. Problem I see I that the current CEO will lead them from a competitive company (vs Intel) to a more low end solution instead. Without AMD, I don't think Intel will have the need to innovate.