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 From data overload to decisive action – accelerating decisions with AI agents Promoted Content Australian mid-market businesses to access deeper AI and security expertise with First Focus-Integris partnership iTnews State of Security Breakfast comes to Sydney Promoted Content From ambition to impact: The next era of government transformation. SPONSORED RESOURCES Closing the cyber security execution gap: How IT leaders are building cyber resilience Tech Skills Report Rethinking Ransomware Recovery: Closing the Detection and Recovery Gap in Asia Pacific Strategies to Counter the Ransomware Threat in APJ Craft your ideal hybrid multicloud strategy Events Cloud Resilience Summit iTnews Benchmark Security Awards 2026 iTnews State of Security Breakfast Sydney iTnews Executive Retreat - Security Leaders Edition - VIC