Nostalgia article about pixtronix adquisition http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1261047

Question for the board here. Latest info is QMT will complete all shutdown activities by end of July. Looking at WARN notice for SD gov, there is no current notice of layoff from Qualcomm (as of 4/1) to SD gov. Does a shutdown count as a layoff?

Ellon Musk has his EVs, rockets and batteries, Jeff Bezos just launched his own rocket... Tim Cook has his apple watch and rumor has it he also wants to drive an iCAR, Google don't need drivers and wants to give Internet to the whole world ... — read more 

Don't wanna wait til tomorrow, Why put it off another day? One more walk through problems, Built up, and stand in our way ,ah One step ahead, one step behind me Now you gotta run to get even Make future plans, don't dream about yesterday, hey C'mon... — read more 

The sooner the better. There is 75% chance of this happening.

I wish marketing would stop trying to pump the idea that an app processor's selling point is the number of cores. A phone doesn't need 8 cores, and while the idea about bragging about how many cores your chip has might have sold chips in the early... — read more 

How do we stop stupid a$$ directors from stealing IPs from good engineers? Case in point, I know one engineer who spent a considerable amount of time developing an IP, director liked it, went to the board and got rejected. Then this slimeball... — read more 

Are there really no other decent options in San Diego other than Qualcomm? It would perhaps be difficult to find another company that offers the same benefits, but surely there must be other companies around?

Intel's x86 cash cow isn't going anyway, which allows it to continue to invest in mobile. It can continue to loose billions at the expense of gaining market share. It has cutting edge manufacturing, plus that allows it to keep the foundry margins... — read more 

Does a phone really need 8 cores? Lol......The 810. What a dud.

If things go like they have in the past, NOBODY will be laid-off. At least no engineers that is. QCOM does not lay off engineers. They fire them. Seen it happen several times. The quota comes down, management is forced to "identify" x% of the... — read more 

Why doesn't the terrible new ad campaign at least use grammar correctly? "Why wait" without a question mark doesn't mean what it intends to say. Who are you? asks for your identity. Who are you. is the title of a rock band's album after they were... — read more 

I have been here 5.6 years and I really have come to hate my boss. He is a self centered ego crazed a$$ clown. Any advise on how I can make him quit? Our group is pretty good to work with except him.

No reason to wait on layoffs. Since the ad campaign shows at the end of it that many of things featured are not commercially available, why not replace one ad with a commercial showing how well QC lays people off (the great packages, the touchy feely... — read more 

It doesn't appear the executive team didnt take any effort to try to place these people in other open positions in their own bu much less the company. That certainly is not Qualcomm culture.

Yeah other companies spend millions in ads (for example apple) but they have a product to push....what is #WhyWait selling? DREAMS?

He has no leadership skills whatsoever to lead the efforts of his 35+ reports, our group is failure and I feel ashame of belonging to it. The biggie is coming and he keeps hiring people for whom he doesn't really have a project. It seems he only... — read more 

this can save a lot

1 get rid of all the free candy 2 stop allowing orders of lunch food for internal only meetings at noon 3 get rid of free soda 4 get rid of shuttles 5 sell off all gym equipment 6 sell all TVs and refrigerators in break room 7 stop allowing business... — read more 

normally each year is 2.5% raise, 10% bonus. what about yours?

Van Diemen's Land Song by U2 Lyrics Hold me now, oh hold me now 'Til this hour has gone around And I'm gone on the rising tide For to face Van Diemen's land It's a bitter pill I swallow here To be rent from one so dear We fought for justice and not... — read more 

Anyone notice that Dan Sullivan decides to step down right before the massive bloodletting begins. Michelle Sterling has no heart, so she won't give a second thought to giving 5,000 people their walking papers.

50/50?

See you all at QSOL 2015!!!