NAMPA, ID -- MPC Computers on Oct. 16 cut about 22% of its workforce from its Nampa and North Sioux City, SD, facilities, the company said.

About 39% (78 positions) of the reductions layoffs came in Nampa and 49% (98) in North Sioux City, with the rest related to field sales and other locations. In all, the company laid off 200 workers, bringing its workforce at the two sites to 693.

MPC, formed in 1996 as a spinoff from Micron Technology, acquired a unit of Gateway last year and is one of the larger PC makers in the world. However, its sales are falling -- down 11% to $365 million in fiscal 2007 -- and the company is facing delisting from AMEX and lawsuits from two companies that claim MPC owes them in excess of $1 million each.