AMD announced a restructuring plan yesterday to cut about 5% of its global workfroce and outsource certain operations in a bid to cut costs.

In addition to the reduction of the company's global workforce, AMD has also revealed that it will consolidate a number of real-estate facilities, outsource certain application development and IT services, restructure the Eneterprise Embedded and Semi-custom business unit (EESC) as well as task a couple of veteran AMD executives to head two vital regional operations.

According Drew Prairie, director of corporate communications at AMD the actions do not involve AMD's drivers teams or AMD's globally deployed product design and engineering teams. The actions were carefully considered in an effort to protect the company's roadmaps, engineering talent and product design capabilities.

Talking to KitGuru.net Drew Prairie said :

“The outsourcing is not related to software teams working on drivers, ISV [independent software vendor] enablement or engineering/product design,”

AMD's Restructuring Plan In A Nutshell

Talking to Wccftech.com Drew Prairie outlined AMD's plan and summed it up in five major actions :

- Creating the Enterprise Solutions Teams within our Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom (EESC) segment to align our business, engineering and sales efforts in this key part of our business around our largest growth opportunities in the data center and targeted embedded/semi-custom markets;