manufacturer, announced late Tuesday that the firm is closing both its Los Angeles and Hayward, California facilities, resulting in the layoff of 347 employees. The firm said the move comes due to "continued weak demand" in North America for commercial printed circuit boards and backplane products. Tags: layoff employment electronics technologie Santa Ana-based TTM Technologies , a printed circuit board manufacturer, TTM said that it had employed 263 full-time employees in Los Angeles, and 84 full-time employees in Hayward.

I’ve mentioned this a few times in the last few weeks, but — despite what you see about layoffs and the economy — there seems to be a great hunger for employees at many local Southern California companies. Richard Rosenblatt of Demand Media (Richard’s best known as having been the Chairman of MySpace) said today that his company has over 30 open positions at the firm, ranging from .NET NET developers to a Community Manager. Rosenblatt says:

The firm said that the move was because business conditions in the firm's industry have "further deteriorated" and demand has dropped for its products. Tags: cymer jobs employment economy layoff semiconducto San Diego-based Cymer, a developer of light sources used for semiconductor manufacturing, said late Thursday that the firm has laid off 100 people, or 10 percent of its personnel. Cymer announced the move in conjunction with reduced earnings estimates for Q4 2008.

Camarillo-based Power-One , a manufacturer of power supplies and related components, said Thursday that it will reduce its global headcount by approximately 1,000, or 22 percent of its workforce, as the firm looks to respond to ongoing demand uncertainty. Tags: jobs employment layoff powerone power power-one semiconducto The firm, which announced the cuts as part of its results, said that it is implementing "aggressive" cost reduction actions because of the economic climate. The firm said it will take a $1.3M

Lake Forest-based Western Digital announced this morning that it is cutting 2,500 employees, or five percent of the firm's workforce, as it sees softer demand for the firm's hard disk drives. According to the firm, demand for its products in the December quarter is "significantly below" the firm's expectations. As part of the cuts, the firm also said it would reduce compensation of the firm's executive officers, board of directors, and senior management; cut manufacturing and use of temporary workers; close a hard drive manufacturing facility in Thailand; and close a media substrate manufacturing facility in Malaysia.

mentioned this before, but it seems like good technical folks are in high demand here — even in this economy, where things have shifted into layoff mode. Still worried about your job in this economy? Don’t worry, if you’re a good software engineer or software manager. I