Bay Area semiconductor testing-equipment maker FormFactor announced today that it will eliminate 70 jobs. The cuts amount to about 8 percent of its total workforce.…
Samsung Austin Semiconductor will close a microchip factory in Austin, Texas for a year starting in October, to retool and modernize the facility. Five hundred…
Norwood, Massachusetts' Analog Devices will shutter its manufacturing facility in Cambridge, eliminating 120 jobs. Work will be sent to the firm's Wilmington plant. The Cambridge…
Advanced Micro Devices, and its newly-spun-off manufacturing arm Globalfoundries, have begin construction of a $4.2 billion semiconductor plant in Saratoga Springs, New York. The plant…
Unpronounceably-named computer chip manufacturer Xilinx will trim 6% of its global workforce, eliminating 200 jobs. The firm is cutting executive salaries and freezing compensation for…
Fairchild Semiconductor will close a Pennsylvania wafer fabrication plant as part of the chip maker's ongoing cost-reduction. The company, based in South Portland, Maine, cut…
National Semiconductor will cut more than 1,700 jobs, about 25% of its workforce, as the economic meltdown affects sales. The company is eliminating 850 positions…