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To: Christopher Reed who wrote (26106)	4/22/1998
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Chris, Re: "Three of my neighbors have been laid-off from the Sunnyvale facility. Any one know how deep these cuts were? Is this news?" This does not surprise me ... I posted this some time ago comparing the productivity and competitiveness of Intel, AMD and Cyrix/NSM: Message 3100952 " ... let's look at one particularly good metric for measuring productivity and efficiency of a company. The metric is revenue/employee/year. In fact, NSM has a slide/graph on their website with this metric: national.com Here's how the current CPU manufacturers stack up on this metric: Intel ............ $410,000/employee/year AMD ........... $175,000/employee/year NSM/CRYX . $200,000/employee/year (high estimate for '98) As even you can see, BigBucks, Intel is the most efficient and productive of these three companies. Why is it that you think that Intel has tremendous overhead?? Yes, Intel does have more employees ... but they also have much higher revenue." This would indicate that either AMD needs to increase their revenue by about 2X ... which they can't seem to do ... or start making headcount reductions: Message 4011016 "Well ProfitsBob, I'm glad you clarified that ... Otherwise you would be changing your name to "Losses" or "Loser", right ?? How is the morale over there at AMD ?? I noticed that your Cost Of Sales (COS) is going "sky high" and thus driving AMD's losses. Isn't it about time for some "good old fashioned" headcount reduction. This would improve AMD's COS and improve their revenue$/employee metric ... Changes like that are viewed positively by analysts. <ggg> ProfitsBob, hang onto your broom ...." I have a "good friend" over at AMD named ProfitsBob ... Is he one of your neighbors that got "layed-off" ?? Make It So, Yousef