Reborn in 2011, 985 missing from two copies

Chapter 581: Using barbarians to control barbarians and hollowing out Qualcomm

Next year, George's team will be working non-stop to develop Kunpeng 910 and Kunpeng 920, and will have no time to develop mid- and low-end chips in the 500 and 700 series.

And these tasks can be completely handed over to the "Qualcomm team"!
In addition, you can also draw on Qualcomm's elite GPU engineers to form a GPU team and develop your own GPU!

Texas Instruments' strongest point is the CPU, while Qualcomm's strongest point is the GPU.

It is worth mentioning that Qualcomm's self-developed adreno GPU is not based on the ARM public version architecture.

On the contrary, it can be regarded as a truly self-developed GPU architecture.

As early as 2008, Qualcomm combined the original "QSH Ader" architecture with ATI's technology to launch the Adreno series of GPUs.

The following year, it acquired AMD's mobile GPU division Imageon.

It can be said that Qualcomm's adreno GPU = Qualcomm's QSH Ader + ATI's technology + AMD's Imageon!

The integration of related technologies from three companies gave rise to the Adreno GPU.

It has little to do with ARM's public version GPU and can be considered self-developed.

It is for this reason that Qualcomm's GPU performance has always been strong.

In recent years, Qualcomm's self-developed GPU has a relatively small lead over the public version architecture, but as time goes by, the gap will become larger and larger, and will continue to leave the public version architecture behind.

All I can say is that the people at Qualcomm are very good at developing GPUs.

Now that Qualcomm is laying off employees, it can simply recruit these people and put them into the GPU team.

"William, Qualcomm's R&D engineers are coming to Xingyi Technology. We should accept them all, especially the elites from the GPU team. We will take as many as we can."

Wang Yi said decisively: "You know the strengths of these people. The strongest ones will be given to Zhang Chao's team to develop our own GPU. The average ones will be given to George's team to make GPUs for flagship chips."

"Okay, Chairman, I'll arrange it right away. Those people who are desperate overseas are basically willing to come to Xia Country. After all, the happiness index in China is much higher."

Williams laughed and said: "Especially for many people, they have no choice at all. Once they lose their jobs, their wives divorce them, and the redundancy compensation has to be divided up in large quantities. They also have to pay child support and alimony. In short, it's hard to explain."

"Okay, let them all come to Xia Country, and we will give him a bright future!"

Wang Yi said with a smile: "And it's not just the employees who have been laid off, but also the remaining employees who can be poached!"

Qualcomm used to have a promising future, and its R&D team was not solid, but it was impeccable.

It is not easy for Wang Yi to poach people.

But now, Qualcomm is going downhill and has started to lay off employees, which is completely different.

Those who have been laid off have no choice but to come to Xingyi Technology.

Those who have not been laid off are also worried about whether they will be laid off.

Everything has its own way. Qualcomm has had its first round of layoffs, so maybe there will be a second and third round...

This time, 10% of the R&D staff were laid off. How many will it be next time? And how many will it be the next time?

More importantly, even if he is not laid off this time, who knows if he will be so lucky next time?
Even if you are lucky enough to not be cut twice in a row, what about the third time? What about the fourth time?
No one can guarantee that they will always be lucky and never be laid off.

If things don’t go well just once, you will be laid off and face unemployment.

Under this situation, those who have not been laid off will also think about finding a way out and a way out in advance.

Even Qualcomm, which was once impeccable, has become panic-stricken.

Xingyi Semiconductor has better performance, better prospects, better treatment, and stability, which makes it the best way out!

And even if they can't stay at Xingyi Technology, there is still Huawei HiSilicon, and their treatment is good.

Based on this, people who have not been laid off for the time being have begun to think about changing jobs.

And if Xingyi Semiconductor extends an olive branch, takes the initiative to contact you and offers promotion and salary increase, then the deal will be done!
Williams immediately understood what Wang Yi meant and said with a smile:

"Qualcomm's layoffs have lost people's support, and its declining performance has also shaken the morale of its employees. Chairman, if we poach people at this time, we will most likely succeed."

"That's right. You should find out who the talents are and recruit those who should and can be recruited."

Wang Yi laughed and said, "To kill Qualcomm, we must not only attack their market and steal their customers, but also steal their talents, especially their core talents!"

"Will there be too many people digging and we won't be able to use them?" Williams was a little worried.

Xingyi Semiconductor is actually very mature now.

Wang Yi waved his hand and said, "No, semiconductors are developing very fast and the future is bright, especially with the advent of the Internet of Things era. There are more than just mobile phone chips. We just need to recruit more people."

"Even if we really can't use it, we can still sell it to Huawei HiSilicon!"

"???" Williams was confused: "Is this possible?"

Wang Yi laughed and said, "We are all friendly companies, so we should help as much as we can."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Soon, Williams called Elaine:
"Brother, we at Xingyi Semiconductor have a lot of people and are not short of people, but considering that you are all talented, Director Wang decided to make special arrangements. As long as you are willing to come to Xia Country, we will arrange for you! Of course, forget about those who are too weak, Xingyi Semiconductor does not keep idle people!"

Hearing this, Elaine was overjoyed: "Thank you, thank you so much. Don't worry, those who can enter Qualcomm's R&D department are all capable, not useless."

"Okay, you can come. The salary will be the same as before. It will only be higher than in Qualcomm, not lower. The subsequent development will also be better. Don't worry about this. The first few batches of people who came here are the best examples."

"It's only higher than Qualcomm!" Elaine's eyes widened: "Great, how can this be a layoff? It's clearly a job hopping! I will get a divorce from my wife and fly to Xia Country!"

"!!!" Williams was silent for a while, but after a long time he couldn't help but say: "Since you have a job, it's okay not to get a divorce, right?"

"No divorce? She's dreaming. I just got laid off and she threw the divorce agreement in my face. She's not getting a divorce and keeping it for the New Year?"

Elaine snorted coldly, "I've thought it through now. Let's get a divorce and divide the property as soon as possible. If my daughter is willing to follow me, I'll bring her to Xia Country. If she doesn't want to, then she can follow her mother, and I'll pay the alimony on time. After the divorce, I'll join Xingyi Semiconductor, start over, get rid of the burden, and start a new life, hahaha!"

"It does sound good. I won't persuade you anymore. I'll be waiting for you in the imperial capital. If you need anything, just let me know."

"Thank you."

"Don't be polite, we are all former TI comrades. As for others, as long as they are qualified, they can come."

"Don't worry, I'll inform them and we'll go to Xia Country together!"

"it is good."

Williams was in a good mood, what a familiar scene.

Once upon a time, they also left Texas Instruments and Xiaomi and flew directly to Xia Country to establish Xingyi Semiconductor.

Now Elaine and others will leave Qualcomm, leave Xiaomi, and fly directly to Xia Country to join Xingyi Semiconductor.

The workplace is cruel, especially in this cutting-edge industry, where there are not many opportunities to change jobs.

The situation is even more difficult, especially now that Texas Instruments, Intel, and Nvidia have almost all given up on mobile chips, and Qualcomm is also shrinking drastically.

Fortunately, Xingyi Semiconductor held it up and became the last pure land.

Elaine quickly conveyed Williams' words to other R&D engineers who were laid off by Qualcomm.

Everyone was very excited:

"That's great. Director Wang is so generous that he actually hired a lot of people."

"And they didn't take the opportunity to cut salaries, and their salaries are higher than Qualcomm's!"

"This is really good news, a great thing. I will book a flight and go to Xia Country as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, just get the divorce done first, right?"

"That makes sense. I lost my job and she filed for divorce. Now that I have a good future, she should be a good ex-wife."

"That's right. This kind of person is not suitable for spending the rest of your life with. Just leave and cut off all ties."

"Okay, hurry up and deal with it. Once it's done, we'll go to Xia Country together!"

"Be careful, don't tell anyone about your trip to Xingyi Semiconductor. Once you tell them, it will be difficult to get a divorce."

"That's right. We used to have high incomes and our wives were very gentle. Now that we're unemployed, our true colors are revealed."

"Hurry up and get a clean divorce, go to Xia Country, and start a new life."

……

After returning home, Elaine stopped the car and walked into the familiar yet unfamiliar home with a complicated expression.

"dad."

The daughter said happily, and was about to rush over as usual, but was interrupted by his wife Jialina's scolding: "Aili, go to the house, Mom and Dad have something to say."

Ellie froze in place, seemingly realizing what was about to happen and not wanting to leave.

But looking at his mother's serious face, he stood up and reluctantly returned to his room.

But he looked back several times along the way and looked at Elaine.

This made Elaine feel heartbroken.

He was heartbroken about his wife, Jalina.

But he couldn't bear to let Ellie go.

"follow me."

Jialina walked into the bedroom on her own, and Elaine followed her in.

Snapped!
A familiar divorce agreement appeared on the table again: "Elaine, you are forty years old, unemployed, and you can't find a new job in the current market. This is basically the end of your life."

"And I'm only thirty-three. I'm still young and I still have a great life ahead of me. I don't want to live in poverty with you for the rest of my life."

Elaine smiled: "So you were willing to marry me because I'm a senior chip engineer and a research and development manager? I have a high income and a decent job."

"That's right, let me add one more thing. Your future is bright." Jia Lina said without disguising, "But unfortunately, I was wrong. Your future is not bright at all. It's not even as good as those ordinary doctors."

"At the very least, after losing their jobs, ordinary doctors can become family doctors or open their own clinics. There are plenty of options and they can make a lot of money."

"But what about you? A noble former R&D manager of Texas Instruments, a noble former R&D manager of Qualcomm. You have been unemployed twice."

"The first time, leaving TI, you could go to Qualcomm, or even Nvidia and Intel's mobile chip divisions. I wasn't worried at all because the market was good at that time."

"But now, after being laid off by Qualcomm, you can't find a new job or a way out. Nvidia and Intel are both laying off employees."

"I don't see a future with you, and I don't want to continue like this with you."

"I'm still young and I still have capital. You know, after the divorce, I can still find a man in his forties and have a comfortable second half of my life."

"Elaine, don't blame me."

"For Ellie, I can only do this."

"Fuck!" Elaine was furious: "It's ok for you to be selfish in reality, but don't use Ellie as a shield!"

Jia Lina spread her hands: "Whatever you say. But the divorce cannot be postponed, we have to sign it today. Let's not waste time." "Here is the content of the agreement, take a look."

Elaine took a quick look and was stunned: "Ellie, let's go with you. The house is yours and the car is mine. You want 80% of all the savings including the redundancy compensation, and I only have 20% left? You are too cruel."

Jia Lina waved her hand: "You know, Ellie is still young and needs a lot of money. Eighty percent of the funds belong to me, and I will raise Ellie in the future. You don't have to pay child support, nor do you have to pay alimony to me."

She understood clearly that if Elaine couldn't find a job, she might become a homeless person. It would be a problem for her to have enough food to eat, not to mention paying child support and alimony.

Not realistic at all.

Instead of counting on that unreliable child support, it’s better to squeeze it all out at once!
"Although you've suffered a loss in terms of asset share, this is all for Ellie, and you don't have to pay a penny to us in the future. This is a good deal."

"No, this is unacceptable." Elaine refused decisively: "Let's be fair. Ellie belongs to me, the house belongs to you, and I give you 50% of the assets! You don't have to pay child support."

"The house belongs to me... 50% of the assets... I don't have to pay child support..." Jia Lina pondered, feeling a little tempted.

Fifty percent of the assets plus the house is equivalent to 70% of the total assets, which is a good deal.

But driven by greed, Jia Lina still said: "60% of the assets."

"Forget it, let's file for divorce. Then we'll split it in half, and if you want the house you can only get 20% of the assets." Elaine said calmly.

Jia Lina's face changed drastically. Once the divorce is filed, the process will be complicated and the assets she will get in the end will be less.

After all, the house is worth a lot of money. Now that the money is split 50-50, I can get an extra house and get rid of my daughter, which is already pretty good!

"Okay, let's do as you say. Ellie is yours, and the car is yours. The house and 50% of the assets belong to me, and I won't pay for child support!"

In the end she agreed.

"make a deal!"

Afterwards, Elaine called a lawyer, drafted a new divorce agreement, and signed it.

The next day, the two officially divorced and divided their property.

At night, looking at her ex-wife, Elaine had a complicated expression and wanted to do it again.

Unexpectedly, Jia Lina had no interest at all and just waved at Elaine:
"No, now you can't touch me again. Pack up your things tonight and leave tomorrow!"

Having said that, she walked out wearing sexy clothes.

"Where are you going?" Elaine frowned slightly.

"I'm free now, why do you care where I go? Hahaha."

Jialina walked with brisk steps, feeling completely liberated. That was the taste of freedom.

I have made an appointment to have dinner with a middle-aged man who has some capital tonight.

Watching this scene, Elaine opened her mouth, but in the end said nothing.

Everything is redundant, and the last bit of emotion in my heart has also disappeared.

"Dad, is Mom not living with us anymore?" 4-year-old Ellie blinked her big eyes and asked as if she understood.

Elaine squatted down and held Ellie in her arms:
"Well... Ellie, Mommy has other things to do, can Daddy take you to Grandpa's house?"

"Grandpa's house, that's great, that's great, I miss Grandpa and Fat Orange too." When Ellie thought of Fat Orange at Grandpa's house, her eyes brightened a lot.

"Okay, let's pack up and go to Grandpa's house tomorrow to see if Daju has gained weight again."

"Okay, okay!"

Thinking of the trip to Xia Country, Elaine couldn't help but say, "After a while, Dad will take you to see the pandas, okay?"

"Panda, the one on TV? Yeah, yeah. Ellie loves pandas!"

Elaine breathed a sigh of relief. Well, no matter what, let's take Ellie to Xia Country first.

Although he had an extra valuable house as a result of the divorce, fortunately Ellie followed him.

He would not feel at ease if he really followed that woman.

The simplest thing is that once Jialina finds a new boyfriend or a new husband, if he has a good character, it will be fine, but if there are any problems, then Ellie will be in extreme danger.

This kind of thing is too common in Lao Mi's place.

That is why Elaine would rather give up a house to keep Ellie by her side.

He didn't dare to gamble.

After meeting her parents and explaining everything, two days later, Elaine took Ellie on a journey and flew directly to the imperial capital of Xia.

Similar scenes occurred in the homes of many Qualcomm employees.

Divorce, divide property, and go to Xia Country.

In this regard, Xingyi Technology has already arranged everything.

Xingyi Technology has already compiled the names and details of these engineers coming from the United States, and arranged apartments for them.

For example, as soon as Elaine arrived in China, someone met her at the airport and took her all the way to the apartment or commercial housing where she was staying.

Instead of keeping a large amount of idle funds in the bank and causing them to depreciate, Xingyi Technology would rather invest them in real estate.

So as early as last year, we started buying houses in first- and second-tier cities in the name of the company.

Of course, the houses we buy can be small or large.

Some of these houses are rented out to earn rent and wait for appreciation.

Another part has been renovated into employee housing and apartments specifically for accommodating talented people.

For example, the 80-square-meter house where Elaine lives is one of them.

After signing the contract with Xingyi Semiconductor, Elaine will enjoy the right to use the house until he buys a house and moves out, or leaves Xingyi Semiconductor.

Of course, if Elaine makes outstanding contributions in the future, she may also be rewarded with a new house.

But this one is not very good. It has a good location, but it will be demolished in a few years.

Xingyi Technology has bought many similar houses and used them as employee apartments.

For these foreign talents, Xingyi Semiconductor not only provides housing but also cars.

Such home-like treatment made Elaine and others, who were originally worried about acclimatization, praise it highly. The last worries in their hearts about being in a foreign country also disappeared.

Jian Ziyan also arranged a grand welcome party, which made everyone very excited.

Seeing that Elaine and other first batch of engineers who came to Xia Country were warmly received and provided with houses and cars, the other laid-off engineers who were still hesitating did not hesitate and set off directly for Xia Country.

In just half a month, almost all of the 10% of R&D engineers laid off by Qualcomm were taken over by Xingyi Semiconductor.

Some of them became the fifth department, specializing in the research and development and modification of new mid- and low-end chips.

For example, in the second half of next year, Kunpeng 910 will become the new flagship, Kunpeng 906 will become the sub-flagship and replace Kunpeng 902. Then Kunpeng 902 will change its name and become Kunpeng 710, a mid-range processor.

The Kunpeng 706 will also change its name to Kunpeng 510, which will be a low-end processor.

By then, Kunpeng 500 and Kunpeng 505 will become entry-level processors.

The role of the fifth department is to modify and develop these mid- and low-end processors.

At the same time, some outstanding GPU engineers were assigned to Zhang Chao's department to develop Xingyi Technology's own GPU architecture!

But what no one knows is that Wang Yi’s ambition is very big.

In addition to recruiting 10% of the R&D engineers laid off by Qualcomm, it also recruited some of the human resources employees laid off by Qualcomm.

However, these human resources employees did not come to Xia Country directly. Instead, they stayed in the United States and became employees of Xingyi International.

Their only role is to continue poaching people!

Recruit other elite R&D engineers from Qualcomm.

In a word, Wang Yi recruited the R&D engineers laid off by Qualcomm.

Wang Yi also took a fancy to the R&D engineers that Qualcomm had not laid off.

The role of these HR department employees is to poach engineers who have not been laid off.

As Qualcomm insiders, no one is more familiar with Qualcomm's R&D engineers and no one understands the level of Qualcomm's R&D engineers better than them.

After all, most R&D engineers are recruited by the Human Resources Department.

In addition, Qualcomm's layoffs have made the remaining R&D engineers feel a little grieving for their fellow humans, and they are also worried that they will be laid off in the next layoff.

In addition, Xingyi Semiconductor has better prospects, higher salaries, and acquaintances can act as introductions, so many Qualcomm employees were tempted.

In the following days, more and more people resigned and went to Xia Country to join Xingyi Semiconductor.

Qualcomm didn't think much of this at first. The previous wave of layoffs had just ended, and it was normal for some people to worry about their future and resign.

But more and more people are resigning, and they are all R&D personnel, even R&D elites!

Now some people are getting upset and think that the next wave of layoffs is coming.

Some senior executives have also keenly noticed this problem.

Especially Franz Quentin, who was always careful, his expression changed drastically:
"Something is wrong, very wrong. We laid off 10% of our employees before, which made people panic. It's normal for some people to leave."

"But now that the layoffs are over, why are there still people leaving? And they're all in the R&D department!"

"Many of them are even R&D Mavericks, core positions!"

"Something's wrong!"

The more Franz Quentin thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, so he immediately conducted a series of investigations.

He was immediately shocked: "Damn it, it was actually the work of Xingyi Technology!"

“Not only were the 10% of R&D engineers who were laid off previously taken over by Xingyi Semiconductor, but those who recently resigned were also poached by them.”

"We're in big trouble!"

"No, I have to report this to the chairman as soon as possible!"

Franz Quentin quickly approached Jacob and was about to speak, but Jacob got there first:
"You did a good job with the layoffs. But the mistakes you made in suppressing Xingyi Semiconductor were too big, and we suffered too much loss."

"How about this, from now on you will be in charge of the personnel department and be responsible for layoffs!"

Franz Quentin was heartbroken: "..."

I originally wanted to remind the chairman, but now I am hesitant.

(End of this chapter)