Article: JDS Uniphase Drops 30 Jobs in Raleigh, N.C., Area; Cutbacks slice into Cronos.

By Dan Egbert, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 3--RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK -- JDS Uniphase laid off about 30 Triangle employees Thursday and halted an expansion of Cronos Integrated Microsystems, the next-generation chip manufacturing company it acquired from nonprofit research center MCNC last year.

Cronos, now a subsidiary of JDS Uniphase, has put on hold plans to produce its micro-electro-mechanical systems, or MEMS, chips in the old Motorola plant on Cornwallis Road in Research Triangle Park, which JDS Uniphase bought in June 2000.

JDS Uniphase, a communications network equipment maker, is ...

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