彭博社:为节省成本,高通计划开启裁员

2018-04-19 14:00:11 来源: 官方微信

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4月19日消息,彭博社援引知情人士的话称,在与苹果对薄公堂的同时,芯片巨头高通(Qualcomm)正计划为削减成本而裁员。报道中称,高通正在寻求削减10亿美元的成本。目前还不清楚高通打算裁汰多少员工,但据说数量很大。

知情人士透露:由于裁汰人员的数量足够高,以至于高通将不得不向加州提交所谓的“WARN通知”,即员工调整和再培训通知。那些打算在30天内解雇50名以上员工的公司,必须提交自与苹果关系恶化以来,高通的收益受到沉重打击。在2017年第四季度,该公司利润下降了90%,并在继续受到苹果法律诉讼的困扰。据说苹果及其供应商在诉讼过程中拒绝向其支付专利费。高通在去年11月份发布的财报中表示,其业绩“受到苹果及其供应商行动的负面影响”。

此外,据称苹果公司在未来的iPhone机型中将完全放弃高通芯片,只使用英特尔和联发科的部分产品,此举将对高通的长期财务造成难以置信的损害。

高通与苹果之间的法律纠纷始于一年前,当时美国联邦贸易委员会(FTC)宣称,高通正迫使苹果以更高的专利费使用其基带芯片。此后不久,苹果公司介入,并向高通提出索赔10亿美元的诉讼。高通最初表示,它原本希望在诉讼过程中,苹果公司能够一如既往地与其合作,但后来高通对苹果提起了反诉。

此外,高通要求禁止在美国使用英特尔技术的iPhone。高通尚未对今天裁员的报道发表评论。这样的文件。

附彭博社原文:

Qualcomm Inc. has begun cutting jobs as part of the chipmaker’s promise to investors to reduce costs by $1 billion, according to people familiar with the process.

The number of positions being eliminated at the San Diego-based company is large enough that Qualcomm will have to file a so-called WARN notice, or Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, with the state of California, one of the people said. Companies are required to make such a filing when they let go of 50 or more employees within a 30-day period. Qualcomm has other major locations in the state and around the world.

A Qualcomm representative declined to comment.

The smartphone-chip maker pledged in January that it would slash $1 billion in expenses to improve earnings, part of its efforts to fight off a hostile takeover bid from rival Broadcom Inc. Shareholders were set to ignore that promise and support the acquisition offer, until the Trump administration disqualified the deal on the grounds that it would pose a national-security risk. Qualcomm’s management team now must live up to its vow and work to solve other problems that have hampered revenue and profit growth. Sales have fallen every year since 2015 and are projected to decline 3 percent in fiscal 2018.

This isn’t the first time Qualcomm has cut jobs. In 2015, after pressure from an activist investor, the chip giant announced a restructuring that resulted in thousands of layoffs. The company has about 34,000 employees.

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