During April AMD company stated that to the end of September it plans to reduce 10% of its personnel. AMD plan to reduce the number of personnel: ( duplicating functions ) after the association with ATI, and to optimize organizational structure .
Yesterday this company declared about this reductions - 500 men, or about 3% of total personnel number . With this step AMD pursued both the elimination of some duplicating positions and attempted to optimize the organizational structure and to decrease expenditures. Also from January , approximately 3000 AMD colleagues will pass to the new joint enterprise foundry company, which with the financial support of Arab investors will produce processors and other microcircuits.
According to some data, the reductions touched different AMD subdivisions . In 2009 AMD plans to reduce the number of personnel to 12 500 men.