There is a common phenomenon in the global technology industry, that is to abandon old employees over 35 years old, and even the old semiconductor company Intel also attaches great importance to youthfulness. In the past two years, a large proportion of Intel’s layoffs are old employees over 40 years old. For China, which is promoting the development of the chip industry, Baiming Technology believes that such old employees should be paid attention to.
Technology companies do not abandon Internet companies whose old employees originate from the United States, especially several well-known Internet companies such as Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft. Under their influence, the younger generation of technology companies has gradually become a global trend.
This kind of Internet companies attach importance to youthfulness, perhaps because their engineers are not true technological innovators, but should be called code farmers. What they need is to respond to the requirements of superiors 24 hours a day, sitting in the office and constantly programming and modifying. Various bugs, which require them to have the physical strength that young people often work overtime, but lack creativity.
For such Internet companies, another advantage of using young people is that the cost is lower, young people’s work efficiency is high, the chance of illness is low, and the social security payment is lower. This also makes Internet companies more willing to use young people. .
Affected by this trend, Chinese technology companies also generally value rejuvenation. Most of the employees eliminated by the last elimination system are those older than 35 years old. However, for China’s chip industry, perhaps it should be Change this phenomenon and attach importance to the role of old employees.
For the chip industry, young people do have their advantages, but the disadvantages are also very obvious. Because young people are generally impatient and can’t afford to study technology seriously, they often lack a deep understanding of technology. The industry leaders are often old employees.
China has indeed made great achievements in chip technology in the past ten years. However, these chips are mainly digital chips. Chip companies have purchased ARM's public version cores and used American standardized development tools to design chips and hand them to chip manufacturers. For example, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. uses standardized processes to produce. This design method makes it difficult for China's chips to reflect differentiation.
For the chip industry, there is also an analog chip, which is precisely China’s weakness. So far, domestic analog chips account for only about 10% of the Chinese analog chip market, and most of them are low-end analog chips and high-end analog chips. Basically rely on imports. This type of analog chip is highly dependent on the engineer's own technical accumulation and requires years of experience and technology of the engineer to design. The chip manufacturing process also cannot use a standardized process, and different processes need to be developed for different types of chips.
In addition, the rapid development of China’s chip industry in recent years has relied on experienced technical professionals from Taiwan’s chip industry. Many of the leaders in advanced technology research and development led by SMIC and Yangtze Memory are seniors from Taiwan, China. Chip R&D talents, and the large number of engineers they bring have contributed to various detailed engineering projects of chip development, which all reflect the role of old employees.
It seems that these chip R&D talents from Taiwan, China have played a role in making the Chinese chip industry aware of the role of old employees. The boss of a technology company who has attached great importance to youth has also changed his views in recent years. You can work in the company to the age of 60, hoping that this will enable domestic chip companies to really pay attention to the role of old employees instead of empty slogans.
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