Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

When Power Consolidates and Responsibility Disappears

The leadership that has been running the company to the ground for several years has decided the failures aren’t due to their own choices — not the years spent pulling engineers away from innovation to chase a commodity PC chip, not the fixation on edge AI while the entire industry moved toward datacenter AI, and not the pattern of entering mature markets long after everyone else.

They never prioritize, never take responsibility, and always look for someone beneath them to blame.

Now they’ve concluded that the real problem is the workforce. Their “solution” is to push out hardworking people and replace them with new hires from the industry, buying themselves another 3–4 years of insulation while nothing fundamentally changes. Because the core issue is them.

And this is the only company where one individual simultaneously controls the financial decisions, the operational direction, the business strategy, and the sales pipeline — all concentrated in a single seat, right next to the CEO. There is no separation of responsibility, no checks and balances, no accountability. When one person holds every lever, failure has nowhere to go but downward.

By 2029, when shareholders start asking why the promises remain unfulfilled, they’ll either quietly exit or invent another cycle of excuses.

Meanwhile, countless careers and families will be disrupted — while the same leadership circle continues to thrive, untouched by the consequences they created.


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matter of time. Apple just announced iphone18 with the second version of its modem C2 which will finally support mmWave, CA etc and is based on 2 nm. The breakaway from QC could be faster than expected. Once Apple departs, bye bye qualcomm

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Post ID: @2ms+1m0qxzm2j

@a6 It was just a sign of desperation. No new entrant would have wanted to get into a PC business which has a single digit profit margin with a market penetration of single digits. It was just a move to buy time. IOT/IIOT and all that talk of "vertical" is going nowhere. The TAS was baloney - anyone who needs it will build it in-house. Automotive shows "strength" and 30% growth YoY coz if you add one more customer, you can show 20% growth. Let us not even talk about AI. They managed to frustrate the lead with all the insider politics and made him quit.

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Post ID: @2fh+1m0qxzm2j

"There are no bad soldiers, only bad generals"

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Post ID: @1rr+1m0qxzm2j

CEO and CFO and all who enabled them ruined the company

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Post ID: @vd+1m0qxzm2j

Q management: Offshoring to India looks so good financially. Selling the Indian business later is even better LOL

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Post ID: @dx+1m0qxzm2j

Very well said. Why to enter matured PC business? Super late for data center.

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Post ID: @a6+1m0qxzm2j

Spineless Board, HR and ER need to pay attention

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