 
In another blow to local manufacturing jobs, 622 workers are likely to lose their jobs between June 24 and July 8 unless the NXP Semiconductor plant in Fishkill finds an economic white knight to buy the facility.
The company plans to end production at the plant June 20 and has set July 8 as the closing date for the facility.
The Netherlands-based company announced last September that it was ending microchip production at the facility in the IBM Hudson Valley Research Park in Fishkill and said it would continue production at the facility for a year while it sought a buyer. But last week an official plant closing notice was filed with the state Department of Labor, setting the date for ending work at the facility.
NXP was the second largest manufacturing employer in Dutchess County after IBM. The facility was formerly Philips Semiconductors, MiCRUS and was originally an IBM chip plant that first opened in 1980.
In October, NXP announced it had retained ATREG, the semiconductor sales division of Colliers International, to sell its fully operational 200mm semiconductor manufacturing facility, to make radiofrequency chips used in cell phones and other devices.
Colliers officials touted the facility”™s skilled labor force and modern ongoing operations as powerful selling points. But thus far no buyer has emerged.
