No one from the Chinese R&D team will be left behind! Marvell rumored to lay off employees

According to insiders, American chip design manufacturer Marvell has decided to lay off its entire Chinese R&D team. Marvell has not yet officially announced layoffs, but Marvell China employees have basically received the notice. The compensation package may be consistent with the "N+3" compensation package given during the layoffs in October last year.

In October last year, Marvell conducted a large-scale layoff and withdrew most of its R&D team in China. The compensation plan at that time was confirmed to be "N+3", that is, average monthly salary × consecutive working years + 3. Marvell explained the reason for the layoffs in China as "the company's global business and organizational structure adjustments." It also pointed out that the two subsidiaries of Maiweier Electronic Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ("Maweier Shanghai") and Maiweier Electronic Technology (Chengdu) Co., Ltd. ("Maweier Chengdu") located in China have decided to axe The SPG departments of Maiweier Shanghai and Maiweier Chengdu; the abolition of the PHY department of Maiweier Shanghai; the abolition of the Design Verification team of the ASIC department of Maiweier Shanghai; the abolition of the Engineering team of the IT department of Maiweier Shanghai, and the partial abolition of Infrastructure team, retaining some IT support staff; abolishing the GREWS department of Maiweier Chengdu, and abolishing some personnel of the GREWS department of Maiweier Shanghai.

"In China, we will focus our R&D investments on local customers and the Chinese market," Marvell vice president of corporate marketing Stacey Keegan said at the time. "As part of this reorganization, several of our business units and functions are announcing changes to their Global positioning strategy, which will result in the elimination of the role in China."

Now, Marvell has decided to lay off all remaining Chinese R&D teams. According to insiders, this is related to the United States’ long-term sanctions on Chinese chips. Especially affected by the new U.S. regulations on China on October 7.

In January 2022, Micron, a major American memory chip manufacturer, disbanded its DRAM technology team of more than 150 people in Shanghai and selected more than 40 core R&D personnel to provide technical immigration qualifications to the United States. Some core employees will be able to immigrate to the United States with their families. .

In May 2022, Texas Instruments abolished the MCU R&D team in China and moved the original MCU R&D line to India. Although Texas Instruments officially issued a statement in response, saying that "Texas Instruments China has not laid off any employees" and "will continue to invest in the Chinese market," it did not deny that it would move MCU research and development to India.

In December 2022, the semiconductor equipment giant Lam Research in the United States laid off employees in China, resulting in Lam Research being unable to continue selling to Chinese manufacturers, which can be used to produce non-planar transistor logic chips and 128-layer nodes below 14/16nm. The semiconductor equipment and technology required for the above 3D NAND and DRAM chips with 18nm and below processes are required unless licensed by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

It is worth pondering that if Marvell’s layoffs are really due to pressure from the United States, then in the future, these foreign chip companies with operations in China, such as Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, etc., will not be able to withstand the pressure and have to lay off employees. leave?