The Semiconductor Metrology Systems division of Carl Zeiss SMT has an immediate opening for an Application Engineer, located in Santa Clara, CA, and mainly servicing our Intel account.
19 January 2010AZ Electronic Materials has appointed Geoff Wild as chief executive
officer. Wild will succeed Thomas von Krannichfeldt who retires from the
position after five years. von Krannichfeldt remains a member of the
board.
12 January 2010Conexant Systems has announced that Phillip E. Pompa has joined the
company as senior vice president of product marketing. Pompa will lead
Conexant’s worldwide marketing campaign to gain shares in all targeted
segments and work closely with Conexant’s sales and engineering teams
to define differentiated new products. He will report directly to
Christian Scherp, Conexant’s co-president.
22 July 2009Arizona State University's (ASU) developed training program for professionals has announced details for the 2009 ‘Facility Manager's Development Program' (FMDP), due to start in September this year.
22 May 2009Further to its approximately 14% cut in staff numbers in October 2008 – only seven months ago, Axcelis Technologies, Inc. has again announced that it is letting staff go in a further attempt at cutting operating costs to stay competitive. Approximately 235 staff, or 20% of its global workforce will be axed from the company’s books, yielding an estimated $25 million in savings per annum.
16 April 2009Xilinx, Inc. has announced plans to restructure the company, including
getting rid of 6% of its workforce, or 200 employees, which would have
a pre-tax charge of US$11-US$13 million for the June quarter, mostly
dealing with severance pay expenses.
16 April 2009Qimonda AG has announced it will be cutting 1,000 employees from its
Portuguese unit, while also suspending the contracts of the 800
remaining workers for the next six months. This unit had stopped
production last month, since parts from Dresden’s Qimonda factory
failed to ship.