LayoffsSep 27, 2019
OraclesweEng

Samsung CPU team layoff

Seems to be huge layoff happening at samsung CPU division. If you can, help those affected by it

AMD Ryzen Sep 27, 2019

HW?

Amazon sleep177 Sep 27, 2019

Yes

Samsung NoComments Sep 27, 2019

CPU team is gone

Cruise Automation c++4me Sep 27, 2019

Dm for referrals

Samsung NoComments Sep 27, 2019

I personally don't need one. But thank you bro.

AMD UncleChips Sep 27, 2019

Out team is hiring experienced DV engineers. Multiple reqs for all experience levels. DM me if you know anyone who needs a new job. There are reqs in physical design that I can forward resumes to.

AMD onefiddy Sep 27, 2019

What was the reason for layoffs? They don't want to design CPU in - house anymore?

Samsung boof Sep 27, 2019

Yup

AMD onefiddy Sep 27, 2019

Why though? Get them from Arm/Qualcomm? Sad to lose a prospective employer 😐

Samsung boof Sep 27, 2019

Ya I guess the plan might be to go with ARM CPUs

Synopsys droc Sep 27, 2019

Is this in Austin? Is Samsung getting out of that business?

Oracle sweEng OP Sep 27, 2019

Yes it is Austin. They are going with ARM for high end core.

ARM ccdz47 Sep 27, 2019

Arm has lots of reqs open across all teams right now if anybody's looking. Full spectrum of HW roles (CPU and system IP/SoC design, verif, perf, impl...

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Microsoft QiCh34 Sep 28, 2019

Apple uses ARM architecture not ARM cores. They design their own big core