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. 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 ElasticON Sydney 2025: Deriving value from your data with Search AI Partner Content Australian organisations must act on security – or risk AI ambitions falling flat Partner Content Machine identity a key priority for organisations’ security strategies: CyberArk Partner Content Ransomware targets Australian SME false sense of security Sponsored Whitepapers See everything. Do more. Lindentech Secures Digital Identity with Zero Trust and Microsoft Entra Diamond IT Delivers GRC Transformation with Microsoft Purview Linktech Powers Energy Trader’s Essential Eight Compliance in Just Eight Weeks Byte Delivers Future-Ready IT: Transforming Endpoint Security and Productivity with a Cloud-First Strategy Events EDUtech AU Security Exhibition & Conference 2025 Integrate Expo 2025 Digital As Usual Cybersecurity Roadshow: Brisbane edition iTnews Benchmark Security Awards 2025