1. AMD Makes an India
Pit-Stop on Recovery
Road
Source: The Economics Times | Bangalore |
Tuesday |17 April 2012
Presented by
Mohammed Mastan
2. Reporter: Lison Joseph
The $7 billion chip-giant’s key strategy team meets
first time outside of America; Big local market growth
a huge driver.
AMD’s new chief executive Rory Read, is determined
that India will play a critical role in its upturn.
Rory Read’s enthusiasm was due to the fact that
AMD’s India sales grew 36% in India.
3. Contd.
One of the topmost priority for AMD is to regain
customer trust that it apparently lost on account of a
few defective supply contracts.
AMD is betting on its new model of accelerated
processing units or APUs, that combine power of
traditional processors and specialized graphics
processors.
4. Conclusion:
As technology companies around the world debate the
impact of global economic uncertainties on their
business, the world’s second largest computer chip-
maker, AMD, expressed confidence that India will drive
the growth momentum.
