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99% of those are assistants and secretaries, believe me all companies hire those needlessly when the times are good and are laid off when the times are hard, I'm sure that hard working engineers and designers etc will be unaffected.
They have thousands of assistants and secretaries doing non-essential tasks? What is this, the Ministry of Silicon?99% of those are assistants and secretaries
99% of those are assistants and secretaries, believe me all companies hire those needlessly when the times are good and are laid off when the times are hard, I'm sure that hard working engineers and designers etc will be unaffected.
Yet upper management responsible for the hiring and firing of these people will keep their jobs. This isn't Target we're looking at here, shouldn't be any seasonal staff to layoff.
Exactly. At my work we are having layoffs but the CEO and his secretary are still free to use company funds to pay for their housing. Apparently 3 years is not enough time for both of them to buy their places.
Are there any other companies in x86 business?Seems that the Atom Team is gonna get kicked out. It sucks hard for them... Hope that AMD, VIA or lesser x86 companies accept them.
Are there any other companies in x86 business?
Are there any other companies in x86 business?
Don't worry. In exchange for using non engineers like tools for seasonal hire and fire, he's spearheaded such amazing initiatives such as more diversity in the work place and cruelty free silicon. His halo remains intact.
Oh and don't forget that amazing little fashion smart bracelet because his wife advice him it's something she would wear.
They have thousands of assistants and secretaries doing non-essential tasks? What is this, the Ministry of Silicon?
Don't forget the dumb "America's Greatest Makers" TV show. Why did the BoD pick this guy to run the show?
Toshiba also axed 14000. Around 5000 in its semiconductor part.
Wow, that's a lot. Doesn't Toshiba make NAND? You would think that business would be healthy.
NAND is also becoming a race to the bottom, at the end of it all only a handful of manufacturers will survive & the rest of the pack, riding on coat tails of the actual chipmakers, will go out of business.Wow, that's a lot. Doesn't Toshiba make NAND? You would think that business would be healthy.
NAND is also becoming a race to the bottom, at the end of it all only a handful of manufacturers will survive & the rest of the pack, riding on coat tails of the actual chipmakers, will go out of business.
Benefit is still there. Lot of stuff have HDD or slow flash storage that can be replaced with modern NAND SSD drives for real noticeable benefit for average Joe.It's easy to proclaim "innovation" by some industrial yardstick like process advantage blah blah, but that doesn't matter in at the end of the day if consumers ultimately see no marginal real benefit over their existing stuff.
It's easy to proclaim "innovation" by some industrial yardstick like process advantage blah blah, but that doesn't matter in at the end of the day if consumers ultimately see no marginal real benefit over their existing stuff.
Competition is good at driving the pace of innovation, but it is an inefficient mechanism (R&D expenditures summed across a given industry) for generating the innovation.