This week AMD company reported about the financial activity results for the first quarter of the present year : $611 mln lost . AMD is assembled to take some future restructurings. As it was communicated earlier, the corresponding measures will allow AMD to reduce its expenditures by half-billion dollars.
At the current conference , AMD management briefly designated the new company policy , which must derive it from the complex financial situation. We will note only the main points .The company management examines the possibility to transfer the production of processors to contract producers. Even now AMD produces a part of its processors in Singapore company chartered semiconductor, the prototypes of new processors are made by small print runs at IBM factories . In the future the proportion of such orders is going to increase. Collaboration with IBM in the sphere of technological developments is given as example to successful specialization and functions separation .
As reported AMD representatives , AMD will lower the reconstruction rates of fab 30, which had to master the production of 300 mm plates processors . We already reported, that AMD will hardly build a third factory in Germany. Now question still open with regard to limit expedience of factory building in New York. It is completely possible that in future AMD will not produce processors, after being concentrated on their development and realization.
AMD sees prospects in the production not of old architectural hardware , but cheap products for the developing markets. The active participation of company in OLPC is the best proof. Simultaneously AMD leaders stated that to the end of the current block the company will remove 500 colleagues. The company management is assembled to draw money from the most different sources, and sale some part of actions to investment .