SINGAPORE: Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd, the world's third largest contract chip maker, said yesterday it would cut 14% of its staff by March 2004 and shut one of its five factories after two years of losses.
The cost-cutting moves – seen by analysts as a bid for survival – came two weeks after the Singapore state-controlled group posted an eighth straight quarterly loss.
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