My group is understaffed. While we have enough TIME to get things done, the mental strain it takes to get our reportables out is already on the brink of causing full burn out. Of course I am worried about my job, but somehow I feel like if I am not fired I will have SO MUCH MORE mental load.
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@en The impact is felt more strongly when fed into the woodchipper feet first.
Also consider the rate of feed, as woodchippers can be run at various speeds.
If you are called to a meeting with your manager and hear the woodchipper running at low speed, ask for a Teams meeting instead.
Since 18a is just bringing external window shoppers, expect massive restructuring because LBT needs to find a sustainable path to 18A-P, then 14a, where external customers may do more than kick the tires.
This means at 30% reductions in TD and something just less than that in the fabs.
I'd be really surprised if some of the older fabs are not shut down in the near future, or sold to private equity or another foundry.
This is needed to get to the next nodes because of low volumes expected on 18a, which is starting to look like a repeat of 7nm as far as the ramp.
That doesn't make it a failure but also doesn't enable it to pay for the next node.
How hard will they be impacted?
That depends on whether your manager uses a baseball bat to notify you, or a woodchipper of course.
Ask your manager not a website full of failures let go by Intel
When IFS restructures away from being a bespoke fab for internal product groups, the fabs will lose most of their dedicated headcount to centralization.
Likely there will be a single team at each regional site, that will support the fabs at that site. So no change for Israel but all the other sites will eventually lose up to 50% of the current headcount.
Prior to that, there will be a dramatic increase in contract workers. This is a particular issue for the fab workers but also affects fab support.
Down the road (in the 3-5 year timeframe) the contract workers will be transitioned to humanoid robots and AI will take a lot of the fab support workload. It will become challenging to find an Intel employee at most of the fabs.
These changes are needed for semi production to exist in the US, because Taiwan (and other asian countries) has heavy subsidies and extremely low wages.
Not a choice.
@ar Defmet is very understaffed lol
Everyone is going to be seriously understaffed moving forward except defmet
@ae people forget, or don't care, about what really happened to real people. Anonymous online still means you have a conscious. live with that
@a5 I'm surprised you are so optimistic.
I am very scared lol.
@a7 and I hope I dont lose my job too...
you are going to get smoked...
I wouldn't necessarily assume you will have to take on more work. Some projects will be cancelled, some things we currently do will no longer be required, and some people will be moved around. Roles will be changed, org structures flattened. But, with few customers, I would fully expect the former TMG to consolidate further at this point.
Clearly you never work hard in your life. Lol
Consider as no impact.
Enjoying working for blackrock?
Given the job stress, I’d estimate that upwards of 95% of fab engineers require a Viagara at this point.
Wait, was that the question?
The work load is going to increase. Get ready for 996.
Yes, people will be fired and yes, if you survive, you will have a lot more work to do. Having a shi-ty job is still better than being unemployed. If you aren't looking for a job, start this weekend.