Short Take: AMD workers get $30 million of profit

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices distributed more than $30 million
in profit sharing to U.S. employees for the third quarter of 2000, the
company's largest profit-sharing payout ever. Employees received the
equivalent of approximately three-and-a-half weeks' pay, half in
cash and half in deferred compensation. The current distribution represents
approximately 10 percent of operating profits for the quarter ended Oct. 1,
2000.