as one of my friends says, will not exist as an entity in five years. The company will probably be sold off piecemeal. Anyone want to bet against that?

"[...]workforce of around 15,500 to 12,500 by early 2009". 

wtf. go back to elementary school.

Lets give Hector a $3 million dollar bonus for running the company into the ground and lets cut jobs to align the expenses. What a strategy!

Look at the economy, what do you people expect when you keep Bush in the white house for 8 years, you expect your economy to be perfect when you're spending Billions on a useless war every year? hahaha... Anyways, i'm glad barrack is president now, unforuntately he will be cleaning up bush's crap for a few years, so hopefully he can get a 2nd term and actually correct your precious American economy.

All part of AMD's 'Asset Light' strategy?

So, how many have gone since the merger?

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