The American semiconductor company, Macom, has shut down its Nijmegen office. This is part of a big, worldwide restructuring plan, including the closure of six more product development facilities: in France (Toulouse), Japan (Tokyo), Florida (Melbourne), Massachusetts (Lawrence), New Jersey (Holmdel) and Rhode Island (Lincoln). Approximately 250 employees will be let go, 20 percent of the total workforce. Once fully implemented, the restructuring will provide an expected annual expense savings of approximately 50 million dollars.
Macom is a developer and producer of radio, microwave and millimeter wave semiconductor devices and components for telecom, industrial and defense applications. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, it has multiple design centers, Si, GaAs and InP fabrication, manufacturing, assembly and test, and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. In addition, it offers foundry services.
The Nijmegen office opened its doors on the Novio Tech Campus (link in Dutch) two and a half years ago. The team led by Mark Murphy specialized in gallium nitride and silicon germanium technologies, designing and marketing solutions for RF energy, beamforming and aerospace and defense. The Novio Tech Campus offered the RF talent and resources Macom needed to grow, Murphy said at the time.
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