On the threshold of ATI purchase by AMD company appeared information about that the personnel reductions were inevitable. From ATI colleagues , the most valuable for AMD dealt with the development of chipset and graphical solutions, and this last decided to preserve their work . The financiers state , marketing , cadre members was subjected to optimization .
As reports associate, from December 2006 the Canadian office AMD was reduced to 375 men. against the background total numbers of personnel ( 16 000 men ) this not too much - only 2%.
Independent analysts consider that AMD will further reduce the staff of Canadian colleagues. Let us note that before ATI purchase , for AMD company it was necessary to conclude with Canadian authorities agreement about the humane cadre policy with respect to ATI colleagues . The therefore, subsequent reductions will not be mass; however, under conditions of severe price war with Intel , AMD had to do some mesure .