Advanced Micro Devices, the microprocessor maker with about 2,600 employees in Austin, announced today that it will cut 10 percent of its worldwide workforce before the end of the third quarter....

Silicon Wafer by kjetilv on stock.xchng Austin-based chip company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has once again found itself in hot water, and this time it's over something far more visible than damaging the Edwards Aquifer. According to a lawsuit filed with the Travis County District Court on Wednesday, the company is responsible for multiple birth defects in at least one child of a former AMD employee who worked in the manufacturing "clean room." Austin resident......

Barton Springs is currently closed after this week's rains flooded the pool. Meanwhile, on the other side of the watershed, the Save Our Springs Alliance points out that recent construction by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and the Hill Country Galleria Mall have left "huge amounts of sediment," much of which washed into the Edwards Aquifer earlier this week: More photos and descriptions are available on their website.......

On May 13, Austin voters will determine the fate of several city charter amendments. Perhaps the most controversial is Proposition 2, referred to as the “Clean Water Amendment.” Prop. 2 would amend certain policies involving the Edwards Aquifer and require the City to fight projects that seek to circumvent the Save Our Springs rules adopted by voters in 1992. Prop. 2 was proposed – along with Prop. 1, the “Open Government Amendment” against “secret......

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MONDAY 24[music] TV On the Radio, Celebration, The Cocker Spaniels at Emo's (info) [film] Save Our Springs Alliance presents "Driving Sprawl," A 20-minute documentary about Advanced Micro Devices planned move to the Barton Springs watershed. at Ruta Maya (8pm) (info) [music] Josh Rouse at Cactus Café ($22, Through Tuesday) (info) [film/drinking] FuseBox Happy Hour/Nerve.com Screening at Blue Theater (6pm, $5, FREE beer and wine) (info) [books] Anthony Horowitz presents Ark Angel : An Alex Rider......

News 8 Austin reports that the Austin Independent School District was among the EPA's Top 25 Partners of their Green Power Partnership, based on annual green energy expenditures. Other Austin-based organizations and companies on the list include Whole Foods Market (#2) and, somewhat ironically, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). According to the EPA, fully 100% of Whole Foods Market's energy is green, from such varied resources as biomass, geothermal, small-hydro, solar, and wind-power. All told, the......

It's been a rollercoaster week for the Save Our Springs Alliance. The on Monday announced that it had finally collected the necessary 20,000 signatures to add an amendment to the ballots in May that would effectively make it city public policy to prevent development in the Edwards Aquifer, chiefly by restricting the tax incentives typically offered to land developers and discouraging large corporations from moving in. Case in point is semiconductor giant Advanced Micro......

While construction at the new 825,000-square-foot, $200 million Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) campus on Southwest Parkway is already underway, the site won't be complete until 2007. Ever anxious to expand their dominion - and, we're guessing, to make it harder for the Save Our Springs Alliance to prevent their final move - the semiconductor powerhouse has signed a lease for temporary office space at Travis Oaks, where they're moving 200 employees. When all is......