I have been saying for the last few years that RCA/THOMSON/Technicolor does not want to be in manufacturing. Evidence is the continued layoffs in Connected Home. When I came to work for RCA there were over 30,000 employees. THOMSON bought RCA and they started started shutting down parts of the business. The US office will be reduced another 70 people at the end of 2019. What was the number one supplier of TVs, DVD, camera, VCR, phones, satellite, cable set top box and modem/routers has been so poorly managed I believe they will soon be out of business. So very very sad.
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I used to work for Hitachi Electronic Devices and we used to sell Thomson Juarez Mexico and Angers France all their CRT fir their projections tv’s. I worked as a quality superintendent and visited their plants multiple times a year. I used to have many engineers friends on both places. What a shame the a great pioneer company as RCA was bought out and ran to the ground.
In that same week TCH also fired around 50 people in Beijing (China) and 10 people in Edegem (Belgium).
At the site in Edegem there's not many engineers left now (around 20-25), and the new role for them will be 'front-office' dispatchers for the engineers in Chennai (India).
What a disgraceful ending for what was once a highly successful, innovative site with many great engineers working on high quality broadband products..