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Silicon Valley storm laid off 260,000 employees overnight! The giants are frightened, and more layoffs are coming
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In 2023, the U.S. tech industry will start with:"Layoffs"As a sign of this, layoffs will remain a buzzword in the U.S. tech industry even in 2024. In January, Microsoft laid off more than 10,000 employees.
Amazon layoffs 270,000 people, Google laid off more than 10,000 employees. With the settlement of American companies and the collapse of Silicon Valley, the wave of layoffs continues: 260,000 people have been laid off overnight, and the major giants are going on a spree with an even bigger wave of layoffs on the horizon.
Wave of layoffs in Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley has long been known as the world's leading gathering place for tech talent. Countless well-known engineers, designers and entrepreneurs dream of realizing their technological dreams here, attracting a large number of global talents. But now, the rosy image of Silicon Valley is gradually being overshadowed by a wave of layoffs.
The wave of layoffs at the start of 2024 has once again raised concerns about the future of Silicon Valley. Microsoft laid off more than 10,000 employees, and Amazon laid off 270,000 people, and Google also laid off more than 10,000 employees. Behind these numbers, round after round of layoffs are causing an uproar in Silicon Valley.
The reasons for layoffs are varied, with one of the main reasons being change and transformation in the technology industry. Some traditional business models and technologies have become obsolete, and many companies have had to lay off employees to reduce costs and improve efficiency. For example, Apple abandoned its automotive business, leading to more layoffs.
It is estimated that many people do not know that Apple has been secretly developing the automobile business for 10 years, investing more than 10 billion yuan. But at the end of February this year, Apple was revealed to have canceled its automotive business, and employees in the original automobile-related departments were laid off or transferred to the artificial intelligence department.
Silicon Valley is collapsing, and in 2023, $260,000 in wealth has been wiped out almost overnight, and the big giants are furious, and things are not getting better this year. Starting with Apple's cancellation of the car business, and even bigger layoffs are yet to come, the wave of artificial intelligence is sweeping across all walks of life in the United States. As long as there are jobs that can be replaced by artificial intelligence, workers have nothing to rebel against.
Bill Gates is right.
More and more Americans are unemployed, and if a large number of people lose their jobs, there will be a surplus of unemployment benefits in the United States. What if you run out of money? The operation of the United States is to print money like crazy, so there is an inflation problem in the United States. In order to eliminate the effects of inflation, the United States can only make the whole world pay the bill.
The reason why we have come to this point is ultimately due to the United States itself. When the United States initially restricted the export of advanced chips to China, Bill Gates once said that not exporting chips would lead to China's accelerated realization of chip self-sufficiency, and the United States would also lose many high-paying jobs. Don't forget, China's demand for chips is huge, and after the United States restricted chip exports, the sales of chips by American companies fell sharply.
Data shows that Oregon, one of the major semiconductor towns, will reduce chip exports by 5.7 billion yuan in 2023, a decrease of 39%.
Bill Gates is right, the United States has lost a lot of high-paying jobs, China is already reducing its imports of chips from the United States, high-end chips cannot be bought, and the United States allows China to ship low-end chips made by itself. Even in the field of artificial intelligence chips, Chinese companies have relevant action plans, some of which can replace NVIDIA's artificial intelligence chips.
Just imagine, if chip products from the United States are replaced by a large number of products from China, whether the jobs related to chips from the United States can still be maintained, and whether the resulting economic upstream and downstream chains will be affected, I am afraid that all this has been transformed into a reality in the wave of redundancy in Silicon Valley in the United States.
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