Just a few weeks after claiming it was not going to cut jobs at its Boise, Idaho facility, Micron has decided to slash more than 2,000 workers jobs by the end of August.

The DRAM maker plans to phase out manufacturing of DRAMs on 200-millimetre wafers in Boise, cutting 500 jobs in the near term. The 200-millimetre wafers are being shelved in favour of 300-millimetre wafer plants, which are more cost-effective.

The world is a sea of DRAM memory at the moment and since a lot of it ends up in cars and that industry has tanked too Micron has been up an effluent creek without a means of propulsion.

Micron is at least safe in the knowledge that its rivals are going the same way. The latest cuts are on top of a 15 percent companywide layoff in which it eliminated about 3,000 of its 19,000 total positions Micron plans to keep its 300mm research and development fabs in the desert near Boise.

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