From the world 1st 1ghz mobile phone processor to the world 1st 10nm server processor, Raleigh CPU team has consistently produced leading edge and world class products.
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Has anybody heard the rumor qcom is slowly moving out of SD. After NXP merger moving HQ to south austin?? They are abandoning 5 building in SD with more to come.
Hampton next door was booked so Intel event was at the Marriott.
Apple is rumored to be opening a major design center in our fair “backwater” town.
No Intel or Apple at the Hampton Inn?
Interesting!
The performance of Amberwing was exceptional. Firetail would have set a new standard. The only problem I saw was immaturity in the aarch64 FOSS ecosystem.
I guess Raleigh’s team is so terrible and incompetent, that’s why Microsoft, AMD, Nvidia and Ampere have been camping out at the Hampton Inn trying to acquire talented teams from QDT
No doubt that without Broadcom hostile takeoffer and idiot SM and co response to save their golden parachutes, QDT would still be here.
Spend a billion dollars - succeed and then snatch failure from the jaws of success.
Pure c-level mismanagement and psychopathy.
How deliciously juvenile! I think Raleigh is going to be just fine for jobs. We're being suited from all corners of the country by several companies. I guess that's what happens when one of the top 3 CPU-SoC teams in the world hits a little bump on the road. #FWP
And before you go bashing Raleigh, perhaps you should visit or look at some online calculators.
How's your salary lately? More to the point - how do you like getting paid 5% more than Raleigh folks for an area that is 55% higher COL? Even if we end up moving (I'd wager most of us won't be forced to), I consider it a blessing to have worked for nearly SD pay for several years here whether it continues or not. I'm laughing my way to the bank and will be retired while you toil away using twice as many people to do the same job. Oh wait - how's the future of the mobile industry looking if you don't design mobile chips for Apple or Samsung?!
Joke’s on you.
I’m in the Bay Area with tours in Austin and Portland. You know, the places with world class CPU talent - not some backwater in the Raleigh distortion field.
Ever notice how anyone outside of the San Diego site is a clown, or trash, or incompetent. What toxic arrogance there in the Q SD culture, and it starts at the top.
@3uxo you'd be surprised. multiple companies starting new stuff in Raleigh now, how's San Diego?
The perf needed by a phone is saturated; that's the reason the team moved to server. The reason China is holding NXP hostage for Firetail is that the device perf is awesome.
Did the clowns in RTP find a job yet?
Let us know how your ‘superior’ processor design skills work out in the real world outside of the Raleigh distortion field.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Snapdragon
I didn't stay long enough to witness all these, but according to this article, things started going downhill drastically after they put cortex in 810. And now qc SOC ends up with little or no differentiator from huawei or Samsung's
Yes 810 was a power hungry disaster but you're wrong there was accountability. They promoted the guy from VP to SVP!
ARM A57 based 810 was a disaster and the SOC VP in charge was never held accountable. Big problem in Q no accountability.
Are you serious? A15 was a compete power pig and late was A57. Get a life, and crawl back up KK's butt.
There is no ARM A54.
Try again.
Krait was mediocre at best vs A15.
A53 is an in-order small core that wasn’t design for performance but efficiency.
Get a clue.
Oh wait, you’re in RTP. You have no clue.
Hydra was poor performance, huge area, high power and higher thermals vs A72 and A73. Hence it was dropped from Nazgul and RTP was kicked out of all future mobile SOCs.
How’s the job search going?
2vlk you know nothing. Krait was award winning and beat ARM A54 to market by over a year. San Diego did an absolute crappy job with the 810 using ARM A57, and the 821 using Hydra won back the business.
Krait and Hydra were sh!tty.
That’s why RTP got dropped.
The tolls on here are ridiculous.
San Diego's coat tails. F--- San Diego and the fat lazy asses.
And Snapdragon dropped the CPU core because rtp stopped making it because the people in charge realized anyone could make one. Idiot's. And Samsung, the fab, finally stole enough of the design to make their own. They failed with the S6 and came crawling back.
RTP sycophants are delusional.
Your CPU suuuuucked.
We dropped it from Snapdragon because it couldn’t beat ARM on any vector - power, perf, area thermals.
You guys cannot roll with ARM much less AMD or Intel. The clown show had to end sooner or later.
Raleigh team always rode on San Diego's coattails. #fakenews
@dap Agree, Raleigh culture was great. The founders of the design center were amazing. Thank you Ron, Angelo, Tom(s) for the amazing ride. As soon as the toxic SD culture started creeping in, a new opportunity in server was created and mostly run in Raleigh. Unfortunately, the folk with the necessary power standing up for Raleigh are gone. Sad that the tech will be lost or stolen by China.
@fod: you think that is going to happen with idiot trump and the traitor republicans owning the government
Wish obama was back.....
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell!
Good post, @dap.
Regarding China: We, in America, need a government that will treat China like what it is, our enemy. We must strip the communist state of MFN immediately, and severely limit trade until a freely elected government is in place there.
When you’ve worked with the same group of really nice people for over a decade, they are like a second family. Seeing this family break apart is honestly the hardest part.
Having to turn over the keys to China for everything we’ve worked on and built over the years before being shown the door is sad as well, but honestly still more sad to part ways with so many great colleagues.
The people in this group were the reason I enjoyed coming to work every day and the reason I stayed with QC so long. People at other sites likely wouldn’t understand. There was no toxic culture in Raleigh, just a really friendly and cooperative team.
Sad indeed