Employees at Hitachi's Irish operations will not be affected by the parent company's decision to cut 14,700 jobs, a spokesman said yesterday.
"There will be no job losses at the Dublin laboratory," said Mr Tanii Kantaro, corporate manager of PR and advertising.
Hitachi employs around 100 people at a laboratory in Trinity College.
The company, Japan's largest electronics maker, said yesterday that it would reduce the number of employees by 14,700 - 4 per cent of its global workforce - after announcing that it would post a $1.2 billion (€1.32 billion) group net loss in the year to March 2002.
More than 10,000 of the jobs are to be cut in Japan, with the remaining jobs being shed from its overseas operations.
It blamed the downturn in the global technology sector for its losses and the cutbacks. Hitachi said the job cuts, which include "natural attrition", would come mainly in the semiconductor and display divisions.