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Well, it wasn't so bad that many years ago before Giga+ or Fab 7 came about. IMO, SMP (Fab 5) that was a joint venture fab many years back between the then Chartered Semiconductor and Agere Systems had a very good culture when it first started off with many Agere management staff transferred over from the parent company, which continued into the 2000s. However the cooperative culture had slowly eroded over time with operation mergers of Fab 5 with Fab 3 (wholly owned by Chartered then) and then a yet another operation merger with Fab 2 & Fab 6 (CSP) which proved to be disastrous whatever cooperative culture that remained. What seemed to be an innocuous plan to incorporate best practices and resources that were supposed to boost manufacturing capability turned out to be an internal takeover. So many of the remaining "old guard" from the SMP joint venture were retrenched in the ensuing purge that any visages of the previous close working culture are non-existent now. Even the current Broadcom(Avago) which took over LSI (which took over Agere) has more or less given up operational control, instead focusing on product development/shipment deliveries by removing the last direct reporting GM, and handing the reins over to GF's own senior management.
On hindsight, I recall the many hearsay regarding the bad reputation that I had heard from many industry people back in the day when I was starting out in my career about the sub-par culture in the Singapore Woodlands campus site. I believe they were referring to the other Fabs, especially the consistently loss-making pre-Giga+ Fab 6, from where all the negative feedback originated. Before I left in 2018 there were still microcosms of good honest, cooperative culture in GF but I think they are eroding fast.

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Rumors of the layoffs circulated widely on Tuesday.














“It was a huge relief,” he said.

“I gotta give credit to Marvell.

They handled it very well.”

Colin Flanders contributed reporting.

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