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Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM

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Re: Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM

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tomatowurst wrote: post #110
opensrcken wrote: post #44

Clients and employees of SemiAnalysis may hold positions in companies referenced in this article. This article lacks the evidence to warrant the boldness of its arguments. And after reading through the paragraphs of poorly based assertions, I see this at the bottom of the article. Why am I not surprised?

It might be construed as defamation in Samsung's view, as they've repeatedly shown to be quite intolerant and litigious in the past, I have to warn that the author is treading on the deep end here. A big part of Samsung's success is because of their insanely powerful and effective legal department. There's just no way their attorneys aren't reading semianalysis.

I have been sent C&D letters in the past by Arm, and even sued by others. I have resources.

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lizardactivist wrote: post #150
dylan522p wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anything I am making the case that TSMC is reigning supreme but okay, believe your conspiracy

Yes they are, but it's not about TSMC's superior quality, but the unsubstantiated BS that Samsung's chip manufacturing is a disaster. And if you think that the U.S. is not using every tool in the box to win markets, including bad-mouthing foreign competitors and lying to win customers over, then you're just lying to yourself. Have you been living offline for the last 20 years? The Internet is a battlefield and no-one…

> the unsubstantiated BS that Samsung's chip manufacturing is a disaster.

They lost Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Cisco for the next generation. Are you disputing this fact?

They did not fully ramp 1Z or 1 Alpha dram nodes. Are you disputing this fact?

Re: Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM

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tomatowurst wrote: post #108
dylan522p wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If anything I am making the case that TSMC is reigning supreme but okay, believe your conspiracy

the sources the article cited are at best unverifiable, even quoting rumor mill directly to support their claims so it does feel quite strange and we can see why from the author's disclaimer: "Clients and employees of SemiAnalysis may hold positions in companies referenced in this article." So somebody seeks to benefit financially from selling the perception that Samsung is in trouble but feels an online disclaimer c…

It's at the end of every article lol

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Post by ookblah »

iforgotpassword wrote: post #170
ookblah wrote: post #153

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people getting a slight glimpse of korean work culture, top-down old school butts in the seat type stuff. it's changing but there's a long way to go.

But they had to get to where they are now somehow. It's hard to believe this exact company culture could habe achieved anything more involved than cloning overseas electrical devices like toasters and microwaves. So was the culture different in the past in some way at least? Like, at least having more technically knowledgeable people in upper management, if not more creative freedom for engineers et al? I'd like to b…

if you have a good leader at the helm then the top down approach can be beneficial because you can cut through a lot of the BS. IMO it's like how democracies aren't really about the best leadership but being able to remove a bad apple.

i'd say that how SK was structured after the war allowed them to flourish, basically a dictator appointing diff people into diff industries and having a state-sponsored acceleration. add to that a drive to succeed and fight and you can somewhat see the building blocks of their success. how SK has progressed is a miracle story.

now that they are seeing the fruits of their labor my guess is you have the "parasites" coming up trying to jockey for position. or with chaebols (these big family dynasties that own a lot of industry in SK) they have their kids/family members who may or may not be competent taking over. essentially what made something like samsung takes a lot to sustain into the next generation.

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Post by terminal_d »

thr0w__4w4y wrote: post #218
throwaway201025 wrote: post #129

As a Samsung employee, I've been continuously being disappointed by the company culture. Recently, the company introduced a new policy that prohibits phone usage while walking inside the company building, due to "safety concerns". Samsung employed ~20 safety guards to supervise and monitor phone usage throughout the campus and if you're caught by them, you will be warned. If you are caughted twice, your team lead wil…

I know this anecdotal and related but directly on-point, but here I go anyway... About 12 years ago, I consulted, on-site, for about a year with a Japanese company with a very very very untrusting corporate culture. (I was consulting on electronics and firmware.) Every USB port on every computer was super-glued shut (yes, I know...) And literally 100% of the internet traffic went over a T1 (for those of you just out…

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