Home News Business Training & Development Five hundred AMD employees axed By INQUIRER Staff Nov 6 2008 3:02PM AMD has cut 500 jobs in a world-wide cull. A general swing of the axe saw workers in a variety of functions packing up their spanners and staplers. One senior engineer told The Inquirer that it was "pretty serious". He was one of 150 from AMD's home town Austin to go. The company said the cuts are in line with its statements that it will cut a workforce of around 15,500 to 12,500 by early 2009. Add iTnews as your trusted source Got a news tip for our journalists? Share it with us anonymously here. theinquirer.net (c) 2010 Incisive Media Tags: amdemployeesfivetraining & development Partner Content Partner Content Realise the full potential of AI with inference economics and Penguin Solutions State of Security 2026: Application Security Partner Content How Canberra Institute of Technology and Cisco put students at the centre of campus design Seven West Media drops Teradata in intelligence layer modernisation SPONSORED RESOURCES Forcepoint AI Data Security ITIL® AI Governance 2026 Wasabi Global Cloud Storage Index The Mythos Moment: When AI Outpaces Remediation - How Can Enterprises Respond Innovate anywhere with HPE and Azure Local Events iTnews State of Security Breakfast Melbourne NiCE World APAC 2026 Sydney Cloud & Datacenter Convention 2026 iTnews Executive Retreat - Security Leaders Edition Can Testing Keep Up? Quality in the Age of Accelerating Delivery