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<DIV>Of course you probably know that Broadcom is supposed to be
moving/consolidating eventually to a huge facility down here that is under
construction.</DIV>
<DIV>I’ve talked with a couple Broadcom engineers at IoT meetup groups that
indicate though that they feel their jobs are threatened – thus they are working
on small startups.</DIV>
<DIV>Lots of jobs listed on their site - they told me they think they will
not be filled. Whatever, I didn’t do RF ASIC/phy chip development work so
zero interviews so far.</DIV>
<DIV>Atmel has had some job postings down here – probably at an acquisition of
their own. Anyone know what company it was?</DIV>
<DIV>Really angers me that the media is portraying the job market as best it has
been since 2008 while thousands are being canned right now (WD, HP, Qualcom,
Seagate, others...).</DIV>
<DIV>I think they list Lyft and Uber taxi jobs in the numbers...</DIV>
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<DIV>Barry</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ebn303afxcut@email.com
href="mailto:ebn303afxcut@email.com">Justin Herrmann</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 22, 2015 10:10 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=neil.johnson71@gmail.com
href="mailto:neil.johnson71@gmail.com">Neil Johnson</A> ; <A
title=sdiy-mz01@blauwurf.info href="mailto:sdiy-mz01@blauwurf.info">Michael
Zacherl</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl
href="mailto:synth-diy@dropmix.xs4all.nl">synth-diy</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [sdiy] Dialog buys Atmel</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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while Broadcom is currently being incorporated into Avago …<BR>>> Which
was a much larger fish to swallow than LSI in 2013.<BR><BR>>Although only
_after_ Broadcom reduced their headcount by several<BR>>thousand. Last year
in fact. June 2nd - I remember the day well....<BR><BR>>Neil<BR><BR>After
Avago bought LSI, they eliminated a lot of redundant staff, and closed down some
of the smaller LSI locations. My last day was March 21 of this year. They gave
us (HBA board design engineers) a 9 month notice, so we could hand off our
projects smoothly (kinda).<BR><BR>Justin<BR>
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