Apple Hunting for Wireless Modem Engineers Near Qualcomm's San Diego Headquarters

[ipponrg]

I have always hoped some of these saving be passed on to customers... but now looks like Apple just wanted more margin.

This is usually the case when you bring things in house. To save costs, charge the same, and increase your margins
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Qualcomm will have to increase their engineer's compensation to retain them or probably lose them.

One thing to consider is that people at Qualcomm will have to move from San Diego to the bay. For many, they would rather stay in San Diego.

 

[cmaier]

This is usually the case when you bring things in house. To save costs, charge the same, and increase your margins
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One thing to consider is that people at Qualcomm will have to move from San Diego to the bay. For many, they would rather stay in San Diego.

No, they don’t have to move. Apple is opening a facility down there.

 

[cocky jeremy]

Go hit up Apples community forums... its an issue.

Millions upon millions of phones. It's going to take a massive, massive number of online posts to point towards anything being a real issue.

 

[serkan]

Usual way of Apple trying to hurt another company. If this way include a startup, they would have already gone bankrupt.

 

[cmaier]

Usual way of Apple trying to hurt another company. If this way include a startup, they would have already gone bankrupt.

So negative. They aren’t trying to hurt another company. They are trying to help engineers by offering to pay them more.

 

[alphaod]

1) Hire all their competent engineers.
2) Watch their valuation tumble.
3) Employ hostile takeover.
4) Buy out remaining assets.
5) Boot out Intel.

 

[0924487]

California does not allow non-compete employment clauses, so Qualcomm can't stop Apple from hiring these people, but it does make me wonder how much an ex-Qualcomm employee could contribute at Apple without using proprietary information they absorbed while working at Qualcomm.

Just like Quick Sort vs Merge Sort, you know one, you can make the other one pretty easily. All you need is knowledge and experience of engineering this specific silicon. You can always come up with something better by reevaluating the original project and creating something groundbreakingly superior.

 

[VictorTango777]

Do I get to raise the rent on my rental property again?