AMD hacks off more limbs

That's 430 peeps, most of whom will be coming from Sales and Marketing, according to bods in the know. According to reports, 50 ex-ATI chaps will get the heave-ho in Canada, 80 AMD bods will go from Austin, 40 from Satan Clara and the rest worldwide, probably where there is still an overlap of ATI and AMD employees.

The cuts come as DAAMIT last month promised only to hire 'mission critical' new employees. Despite an injection of $2bn dollars from convertible notes sold on ludicrous terms, it seems that there's still plenty of belt-tightening to be done at the firm.

Interestingly, the Mercury News gets the INQBlot Special Award for Technical Terminology, for suggesting that AMD's quad-core Barcelona has four "computing brains" to improve performance. The CPU is the 'brain' of the computer, and don't you forget it, else you'll be in for a nasty visit from the Mageek. µ