Applied Materials to cut 12 percent of global workforce Archives Published: November 13, 2008 Reading time: Less than 1 min. FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedinEmail Chip manufacturing equipment company Applied Materials plans to reduce its global workforce by about 12 percent, or 1,800 workers, in a move to cut costs and streamline its business, the company announced Wednesday. FacebookTwitterWhatsAppLinkedinEmail Related articles Cloudflare Resolves Brief Dashboard Outage Triggered By Firewall Configuration Change Wired December 6, 2025 Cloudflare Maintenance Triggers Service Disruptions Across Multiple Platforms Wired December 5, 2025 Pakistan Tableau User Group Launches With Session On AI Powered Insights Using Tableau Pulse Wired December 5, 2025 Ignite Invites Proposals For Management Of National Incubation Center Quetta Wired December 4, 2025