Actually I may have been wrong about telecom… it is part telecom and part semiconductor. The company is TI. I heard about it last night. Seems to me it kind of came out of the blue but I am on the outside looking in there. I have heard varying degrees as to the size of the layoff but I "think" it is non trivial.
Anyways yeah FLU lots of diversity… as most of us old codgers know a heavy amount of our ancestry can find roots back to Link A Bit… Of course the old GD had quite a work force back in the 80's… Also though yeah lots and lots of small/medium size companies here… Comcast has a digital design team with embedded firmware development… Moto has alot here (my old stomping grounds for many years)… all kinds of support companies for EDA tools and services… I could go on and on…
Nostra I am not sure if TI is the one you heard about but it is the one I heard about.
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Oh crap. We know a lot of people from there. Or I should say, we knew a lot of people that's beem steadily quiting over the years. I think the ultimate downturn was when Nokia pulled out of the CDMA market, which TI had been a supplier to. That's too bad, because when I was at the Barcelona mobile conference, they actually had a pretty impressive demo of a phone running Google's android platform. More so than the breadboard version that QC was running. TI's wireless program has been in the toilet for the past couple of years, so unfortunately it's not really a surprise. I just thought that enough people had already left that there wasn't that much more attrition. Well, anyway, if you know anyone that is interested in the QC, let me know.
Anyone know about what's going on with NextWave (II)? My guess isn't not in that great of a shape either. I was around to see Nextwave (I) unravel. When I saw this company reborn, specializing in WiMax, I thought oh my. WiMax is going nowhere.
I guess seeing all this turmoil, with all due respect to you embedded folks, I'm sort of glad my wife and I don't do the same thing, let alone work at the same company. Though it's probably not as much as a big deal to find embedded positions out here than web 2.0+ enterprise crap that I do (no really, I really enjoy doing what I do, except the days things break 🙂 )
