Following on the news today that SanDisk could be about to lay off 15 per cent of its staff following the disastrous conditions in the NAND flash market, a reader has kindly sent in the following chart of high-tech lay-offs this year which was compiled by torlies@gmail.com who would be interested to hear of any additions to the list.
Company, % Of Workforce, Headcount
Actel 10 60
Afond 100 49
AMD 10 1700 3 500
Apexone 14 12
Applied Materials 7 1000
Axcelis 14 200
C2Micro 10
Cadence 12 625
Cisco 129
Commit 100
FormFactor 12
Freescale 10 2400
IBM chip Unis 10 350
KLA-Tencor 100
Infineon 3000
Intersil 9 140
Lattice 14
Legend Silicon 100
Magma 10
Mattson Technology 14
Micron Techlonogy 15 1500
Micronic Laser Systems 26
MIPS 15 512
Motorola 3000
National Semi 200
130
Nokia 600
NVIDIA 6.5 360
NXP 15 4500
Qimonda 3000
Rambus 21 90
SanDisk 15 (est'd)
Silan 50
ST China 10
ST-NXP Wireless 5 375
Synopsys 40
Thomson IC 100
TI 2 650
Trident 15 100
UMC 5 600
Xilinx 7 250
QuickLogic 17
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