NPX FSL Merger - they will take a $250M restructuring charge (based on what was published today), at $150K per resource (typical charge off in tech related fields, per resource laid off) we will be looking at about 1500 Freescale folks departing soon.
The layoffs are happening right now, also, some contractors will be let go and some reqs will go unfilled - that may help a bit but if they are talking 250M charge here I am confident that they will let go at least 1000 folks (full time, employee status) go...