AMD delays Austin move due to bad newts

HARDWARE SITE AMD Zone reports that Advanced Micro Devices won't make a move to Oak Hill until early next year.

Weirdly, the reason is dual - it wants to keep expenses down until 2008 dawns and doesn't want to upset the company at the time of launching Barcelona.

The news has nothing to do with disrupting the life cycle of blind newts or salamanders, as far as we can gather.

More here.

The Save our Spring Alliance wonders if AMD will have a shell at the Barton Springs watershed to match the Intel one blown up in downtown Austin recently. Several species of salamanders were allegedly threatened by the AMD move. µ

* INQblot Salamander is an anagram of AMD Arsenal. AMD does not sponsor famous soccer team Arsenal. Blackburn Rovers....

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