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An unpleasant news hit Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD). Reportedly, the chip manufacturer is planning to lay off some of the nearly 12,000 employees.
Lowering Reuters report from reliable sources that are not named. It is said that the second round of layoffs this year will be close to 10-20% of the total workers they have.
Similar reports came from All Things D that may be mentioned that the announcement of job cuts will be done next week.
Quoted by Reuters on Sunday (10/14/2012), commencing in February, AMD has 11 705 employees worldwide. On the issue of dismissal is AMD still shut.
When properly layoffs occur, it is likely the employee is qualified and the sales are affected. Previous AMD warned that revenues in the third quarter they will fall by 10% from the previous quarter.
The company is scheduled to report financial results issued on 18 October. Mentioned, the growth of mobile devices such as the iPad has decreased due to AMD's business has undermined sales of laptop and desktop computers.
Reuters also says that AMD, and its rival, the Intel was slow in adapting their designs to the mobile PC chip.
