http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050618/NEWS01/506180306/1002About 50 people in Agilent Technologies' automated test group will lose their jobs over the next year.
The cuts, which will occur primarily at the company's Loveland location, are a result of softness in the semiconductor market, said Kelly Parthen, a spokeswoman for the company. The Loveland office employs about 750 people.
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The layoff news comes as Northern Colorado residents are grappling with hundreds of high-tech layoffs.
Companies such as HP, Agilent Technologies and Advanced Energy have together announced upward of 300 layoffs in the past year. Toronto-based Celestica Inc. announced earlier this year that it would close its Fort Collins site within a year, putting 800 people out of work.
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