Datacenter will not save Qc. BU leadership is full of nepotism and discarded mobile product managers with zero datacenter industry experience for any prospective customers to take Qc seriously. No wonder all datacenter products keep getting cancelled and the next gen products 2 years down barely compete with current offerings from Nvidia and AMD. Moreover investment is too late and too little in front of NVDA and AMD. Datacenter will be a bigger failure than compute.
Qc deserves big layoffs with a large incompetent and non productive workforce. Most teams can deliver the same with 25% cuts skewed towards management, program managers and low performers. Software teams will get at the biggest cut in coming years with such high levels of incompetency overall and AI taking over. Bloat in Software workforce is the most recognized problem in Qc at higher levels.
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@xa rejects from mobile who didn't know a thing about data center and are now running the show
BU run by Cialis and his band of Italian friends with no credibility
@d4
You hit the nail on the head. To give a military analogy, the RIF's have impacted the NCO ranks. The Officer ranks (Sr.Dir and above) do not get impacted as much. For example, if you take QCT SW, pool all the directors and above together, offer a golden handshake to a handful them, who, anyway are looking to retire, there is already a saving of 7% to 10%. Then in the category of "enlisted men" (<=Staff), their are still low cost and will not result in major cost savings. However, in the NCO ranks (Senior Staff, Principal/Director) there are many stuck there for 7 to 10 years and are "ripe for plucking".
Now, this strategy does result in cost savings, but once the "NCO's" are gone, the "Officers" are unable to work directly with the "Enlisted". Result is disaster. In the military, it is the NCO cadre that forms an important bridge between the Officer ranks and the enlisted. The reason is that the officer ranks have long been distanced from the field realities while the enlisted do not have enough experience.
Data centers don’t make money, they’re a thankless job. You make money as a cloud providers having services running in datacenters
Q will fail Data Center business. I have never seen the good business identified by Q leaders. They are not the tier-1 leaders.
Half of gsoc should be kicked out
RIFs (Reduction In Force) won't fix QCOM's problems. After each RIF the company is left with a smaller and smaller number of employees and those employees will just continue with their H1B behavior/favoritism/status-checking behavior/etc. until no one is left and the remaining few just cannibalize each other.
Kind of like what happened to Sun Microsystems back in the day.