Just a few weeks after claiming it was
not going to cut jobs at its Boise, Idaho facility, Micron has decided to slash
more than 2,000 workers jobs by the end of August.
The DRAM maker plans to phase out
manufacturing of DRAMs on 200-millimetre wafers in Boise, cutting 500 jobs in
the near term. The 200-millimetre wafers are being shelved in favour of
300-millimetre wafer plants, which are more cost-effective.
The world is a sea of DRAM memory at
the moment and since a lot of it ends up in cars and that industry has tanked
too Micron has been up an effluent creek without a means of propulsion.
Micron is at least safe in the
knowledge that its rivals are going the same way. The latest cuts are on top of a 15
percent companywide layoff in which it eliminated about 3,000 of its 19,000
total positions Micron plans to keep its 300mm research
and development fabs in the desert near Boise.
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