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Freescale plans job cuts

31 May 2007 | By Mark Osborne | Recruitment News

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Freescale is planning job cuts, greater manufacturing outsourcing and other financial measures as a result of falling sales primarily due to the poor mobile phone sales of its biggest customer and one-time parent, Motorola.

A news story at Austin Business Journal has more on the subject here: http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2007/05/28/daily9.html