January 20, 2009
AMD to axe 1,100 (more) jobs
The Register
Austin Modine outline’s AMD further cost-cutting measures.
“AMD plans to slash its workforce by nine per cent beginning next month, while temporarily reducing wages from its CEO down to hourly workers. Starting February, the chip maker will cut about 1,100 positions through a combination of layoffs, attrition, and the off-loading of the handheld business it inherited through ATI. The layoffs will affect about 900 employees. AMD spokesman Michael Silverman told us the job cuts will be across all levels, segments, and regions, but he said this would be done in a way that preserves AMD’s capability to execute on their road maps.”
15-inch MacBook Air rumored
ZD Net
Jason O’Grady provides the latest rumour to come out around Apple from Chinese blog post.
“Translated from Chinese by Google Translate, the recent entry on Apple.pro said, ‘It is understood that Apple is producing more than the current MBA size MacBook Air (15-inch?).’”
Windows 7 Slims Down for Linux Netbook Battle
The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy details what Microsoft has done to put Windows on a “diet,” after releasing a “too bloated (Vista) for low-end PCs and netbooks.
“The Windows 7 public beta appears slimmer and optimized for lower-end hardware. Clearly, Microsoft hopes to fend off competition from Ubuntu and other Linux distributions optimized for Netbooks.”
