â¿¿2001â¿¿ is shaping up to be the new cliche, as business reporters compare the current state of tech stocks to the post-Bubble panic. Every day seems to bring a new headline about some tech stock plunging to previously-unseen depths.

â¿¿Things have gotten worse every week of October and even worse in November,â¿¿ Charter Equity Research analyst John Dryden told the New York Times.

â¿¿People donâ¿¿t have any money left to buy cool gadgets,â¿¿ another research analyst said in the same article.

So here it is, your bad news roundup (after the jump). Iâ¿¿ve tried to include good news where possible.

Bad NewsGood Newsthe Numbers
IntelSales could fall as much as 19 percent in the fourth quarter.It's Intel. They'll be all right.Expected fourth-quarter revenue of $8.7 billion to $9.3 billion, down from the earlier projection of $10.1 billion to $10.9 billion.
AMDPlans to lay off 500 people, or around three percent of its work force.AMD bought itself a little bit of breathing room with its Shanghai quad-core Opteron processors.AMD reported a net loss of $67 million, or 11 cents a share, in the third quarter, compared with a loss of $396 million, or 71 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter.
Cadence On October 16, its chief executive and four other senior executives took offâ¿¿"an unusually sweeping shake-up."Not much.Cadence shares plunged about 15%, or 80 cents a share, to $4.80 on the Nasdaq. A month later, they're hovering around $3.91. Cadence's projection of a third-quarter loss is due to industry-wide issues that include weaker demand for the software to make chips.
SunPlans to lay off 5,000 or 6,000 workers, more than 15 percent of its global workforce, over the next year.Not much.Stock price has plummeted, closing at $4.08 on Thursday, down from a 52-week high of $21.55. And last month, Sun reported a $1.67 billion loss in its most recent quarterâ¿¿mostly due to a $1.45 billion charge to write down the value of past acquisitions.
Applied
Materials		Plans to cut 1,800 jobs, close to 12 percent of its workforce.Not much.45 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit to $231 million, down from $422 million last year. Sales tumbled 14 percent, to $2.04 billion from $2.37 billion last year.
Nvidia74 per cent drop in profit for its third quarter of 2008. Being sued by Rambus (but then again, who isn't?); losing market share to ATi due to poor VGA card pricing and lower than expected performance; the famous notebook video card recall⿦

Even this was better than what Wall Street was expecting.Net profit of $61.7 million, or 11 cents a share, in the three-month period. Last year it made $235.7 million, or 38 cents a share, in the comparable period.
HPIn September, the company said it will lay off 24,600 people over the next three years, or nearly 8 percent of its workers.The memistor? HP was down more than 7% on Wednesday, bringing it to HP's stock down more than 40 percent this year.
Dell chief technology officer Kevin Kettler plans to step down soon; in August, the company said it had cut 8,500 jobs. Countless variations on "Dude, youâ¿¿re not getting a Dell."Dell shares fell as much as 15 percent on Wednesday; for 2008, Dell shares are off more than 60 percent.