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Agilent Restructuring EM

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 26, 2009 – In response to a 30 percent drop in global demand for its products, scientific test and measurement company Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a major restructuring of its electronic measurement (EM) business and a further restructuring of its Semiconductor & Board Test segment. The moves are expected to cut another 2700 jobs. Agilent said revenue for fiscal 2009 in the EM segment, which makes tools primarily used to test communications networks, is expected to be down about 30 percent from 2008 to the lowest level in the company’s 10-year history. Revenue in the Semiconductor...Read full article

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    Published: March 2009
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    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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