Scotland in the UK could be the latest region to suffer job losses on the back of the worldwide semiconductor slump, with press reports suggesting that Motorola Inc will cut 200 jobs from its 4 inch wafer plant in East Kilbride, near Glasgow. The move follows the announcement on Friday that Motorola, as part of the 15,000 jobs it was cutting in its $1.91bn restructuring, would be reorganizing the semiconductor products sector, folding in the consumer products semiconductor business, cutting an unspecified number of jobs at the same time. Scotland could be following the rest of the industrial centers in Britain, with large semiconductor firms pulling out. Last month Siemens AG abandoned its DRAM plant in North Tyneside and last week 600 jobs were lost from a Fujitsu Ltd fabrication facility in County Durham.
