AMD partner Newisys up for sale?

A REPORT in Client Server News suggests that AMD partner Newisys is up for sale.

And the same report suggests that the firm laid off as many as a quarter of its staff in preparation for a takeover.

The subscription only newsletter claimed that the likely buyer of Newisys is a contract manufacturer, and that Sanmina SCI is responsible for making the boxes, that use AMD's Opteron microprocessors.

The report claims that big orders from large OEM customers has been scanty, and there still isn't enough demand for 64-bit machines, nor enough operating system software or applications.

You can find this account, here.

AMD is set to deliver its quarterly results later on today. µ