AMD announces 10 per cent cut to global workforce

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It expects redundancies to save £73m in 2012

Semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced that it plans to cut 10 per cent of its 11,000-strong global workforce by the end of the first quarter in 2012. AMD has said tha...

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