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Aug 13, 2009

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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. more

Company name: Carl Zeiss SMT · Location: Santa Clara , CA,

Going Places

AZ Electronic Materials appoints new CEO

19 January 2010 AZ 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.

Conexant gains new senior vice president of product marketing

12 January 2010 Conexant 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.

Recruitment News

Facility Manager’s Development Program ‘09 begins in September

22 July 2009 Arizona 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.

Axcelis cuts one-fifth of global workforce

22 May 2009 Further 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.

Xilinx looks to restructuring

16 April 2009 Xilinx, 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.

Qimonda Portuguese subsidiary cuts 1,000

16 April 2009 Qimonda 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.