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AMD confirms it's cutting 4% of its global workforce
(www.theregister.com)
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Do we know how many people AMD hired in recent years? Because often with news like that it is just companies cutting back a bit after having undergone an even larger expansion not too long ago
They had 8,200 employees at the end of 2016. By the end of 2023, they had 26,000 employees.
So yes, a massive expansion in the last ~8 years.
AMD's situation has massively shifted during that period, but it does add some perspective. In 2016 they'd have probably loved to have more employees, but couldn't afford them unlike now. And in recent times the Xilin aquisition added a bunch of employees, with some possibly redundant?
Overall i probably believe AMD's comment:
I assume lesser profitable margine products are e.g. dedicated consumer GPUs?