US appreciate CECA's. Why can't we do the same?

[syed putra]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gets $242 million pay package after taking control of Alphabet
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Pichai has earned nearly $1 billion in stock grants over the last five years
By Nick Statt@nickstatt Dec 20, 2019, 12:44pm EST
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai got the promotion of a lifetime earlier this month, when company co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin relinquished control of parent company Alphabet Inc. to the longtime Google executive and stepped back after more than two decades at the search giant.
Now, Pichai’s compensation is changing to reflect his new dual role as Alphabet and Google chief executive. According to Bloomberg, which cites a financial filing published Friday, Pichai is being granted a $240 million stock package on top of a $2 million annual salary to take effect in 2020. The stock package is tied to performance metrics and will be paid over the course of three years. According to Bloomberg, Pichai could make an additional $90 million pending Alphabet’s share performance in relation to the S&P100 Index. This is the first time the company has granted performance-based stock grants.
Pichai is already one of the highest paid executives in Silicon Valley, having held the job of Google CEO since 2015 when Page and Brin first restructured the company to create Alphabet. His salary last year clocked in at $1.8 million, Bloomberg reports, and prior to that Pichai is reported to have made $650,000 a year.
PICHAI HAS COLLECTED NEARLY $1 BILLION IN STOCK GRANTS OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS
However, he’s received numerous stock grants over the last decade, including one for $250 million in 2014 and a pair of grants in the years afterward totaling $300 million, that have put his net worth close to $1 billion. Pichai received the last of those stock grants in 2016, and he’s made so much money, in fact, that he turned down an additional stock grant last year, Bloomberg reported. Although he is among the highest paid executives in tech, Pichai’s net worth pales in comparison to Page and Brin, both of whom own roughly 6 percent of Alphabet and have respective net worths of $65 billion and $63 billion.
Yet Pichai’s generous compensation may become a renewed point of contention among Google employees following today’s news, given the extreme turmoil inside the company that’s been brewing for the last couple of years. Following revelations about disgraced Android co-founder Andy Rubin’s discreet $90 million exit package, following allegations of sexual misconduct Google leadership deemed credible, Google employees organized the 20,000-person Google Walkout protest.
Since then, employees’ relationship with management has grown severely antagonistic around issues like labor organizing, with multiple fired or resigned employees saying they were retaliated against for organizing internal protests and labor actions. Just yesterday, former Google employee Claire Stapleton, an organizer of the Google Walkout, detailed the retaliation she faced from the company in the months following the protest in a first-person essay for Elle magazine. Stapleton eventually quit the company, along with three of the other six organizers. A grant of this magnitude for Pichai could then be seen as a sign of approval over how he’s handling these various controversies, which may further rankle Google’s growing activist and pro-union coalition.

 

[A Singaporean]

Fuck CECA.

 

[knowwhatyouwantinlife]

Every race and ethic group has its top 1% of talent regardless...not every one is destined to make 242 million a year

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Soon the usa will end up worst when the ah nehs strike...

 

[syed putra]

Locals should offer more sacrifices.

 

[syed putra]

Intel Hires Ex-AMD Silicon Design Exec To Lead Discrete GPU Efforts

The hiring of Masooma Bhaiwala comes as the semiconductor giant plans to make a big splash in the discrete GPU space, starting in 2020, with products targeting a wide range of segments from from high-performance computing and deep learning to gaming and mobile.
By Dylan Martin December 19, 2019, 04:33 PM EST

Intel has hired away a former AMD silicon design executive to lead the chipmaker's discrete GPU efforts ahead of the new product line's expected 2020 debut.
In a message to CRN, Masooma Bhaiwala said her full title at Intel is vice president, discrete GPU SoCs, a role that puts her in charge of discrete GPUs for client, data center and high-performance computing segments. She started in December, according to her LinkedIn profile.
[Related: Next For AMD In The Data Center: Tighter EPYC-Radeon Integration]
Bhaiwala said she is working in Intel's Graphics and Throughput Computing Hardware Engineering organization that is part of the Intel Architecture, Graphics and Software group run by top Intel executive Raja Koduri, the former AMD chief GPU architect who was hired away to jumpstart the chipmaker's discrete GPU efforts and other initiatives.
"After 15+ amazing years at AMD, I have decided to take on a different opportunity... It was a truly fun ride, with an incredible team, during which we built some truly cool chips," she wrote in a recent post.
An Intel spokesperson confirmed receipt of CRN's request for comment but did not provide a response with more details of Bhaiwala's hire by press time.


Bhaiwala is the latest former AMD executive to join Intel after the semiconductor giant scooped up Koduri from AMD in November 2017, which led to a series of hires from its top rival in the CPU space. Other AMD veterans that have joined Intel since then include Mark Hirsch, Jim Keller, Balaji Kanigicherla, Kalyan Thumaty and Joseph Facca.
Intel is planning to make a big splash in the discrete GPU space, with products targeting a wide range of segments, from HPC and deep learning to gaming and mobile. The chipmaker has previously said it plans to release its first discrete GPU in 2020, though it most recently has revealed details for a 7nm HPC and deep learning GPU, code-named Ponte Vecchio.
All of Intel's discrete GPU products will be based on the chipmaker's Xe architecture, which is meant to give developers a common framework. Under Xe, however, there will be "many microarchitectures that enable peak efficient performance at each one of those workloads," Intel's Ari Rauch said in November.
Bhaiwala had been at AMD for more than 15 years, having most recently served as a corporate vice president. Her LinkedIn profile states that she has more than 27 years of experiencing in "building silicon design teams and delivering on-schedule, high quality parts."
During her time at AMD, Bhaiwala worked on three semi-custom chips for game consoles as well as other semi-custom APUs and ASIC designs.
Prior to joining AMD in 2004, she was a senior RTL manager at Sun Microsystems and a senior verification engineer at Digital Equipment Corp.

 

[Pinkieslut]

Intel's Xeon chip kill is result of chaos in India
Server chief leaves India and Intel behind
By Ashlee Vance 28 Oct 2005 at 19:02
Exclusive While stunning in its own right, Intel's cancellation this week of the multicore "Whitefield" processor stands as a more significant miscue that simply excising a chip from a roadmap. Whitfield's disappearance is a blow to India's growing IT endeavors.
Originally discovered by The Register, Whitefield stood as a major breakthrough for Intel and its Indian engineers. The much-ballyhooed chip would combine up to four mobile processor cores and arrive in 2007 as the very first chip designed from the ground up in India. In the end, engineering delays and a financial audit scandal killed the processor, leaving Intel to develop the "Tigerton" replacement chip here and in Israel.
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El Reg has discovered that Srinivas Raman, former general manager of Intel India's enterprise products group, left the company in early August and joined semiconductor design tools maker Cadence - the home of former Intel global server chip chief Mike Fister. Raman declined to return our phone calls, but insiders confirm that he was the lead of the Whitefield project. The executive became distressed about the project when Intel's audit resulted in close to 50 of his staff being let go from the company, one source said.
Of the 50 staffers, close to 20 of them were sent to India from Portland in 2001 to work on Whitefield. The cancellation of the project has since resulted in much of the work being sent back to Portland.
Whitefield had been meant to serve as Intel's most sophisticated response to the rising multicore and performance per watt movements. The company has fallen well behind rivals IBM and Sun Microsystems on such fronts in the high-end server market and behind AMD in the more mainstream x86 chip market. The Whitefield chip was designed to give these competitors a real run for their money as it made use of Intel's strong mobile chip technology to deliver a high-performing product with relatively low power consumption.
Instead of wowing customers, Intel has disappointed them and created a painful situation for its India staff.
Local paper The Times of Indiacommented this week on the situation.
"India's ambitions of emerging (as) a global chip design and development hub has just suffered a big knock," the paper wrote. "Intel has killed its much-hyped Whitefield chip, a multicrore Xeon processor for servers with four or more processors that drew its name from Bangalore's IT hotspot, Whitefield, and which was being developed almost wholly in this city.
"Intel had invested heavily in the project, both in infrastructure and people, drawing in some of the brightest talents. Some 600 people are said to be employed in the core hardware part of the project."
Chip staffers in India currently fear losing their jobs and morale is very low as a result of the Whitefield cancellation. Many of the staffers had only been told that Whitefield would be delayed by six to nine months. They learned of the project's end in the press.
The difficulties here show how complex global operations can be with sophisticated products. India hoped to take on more and more of Intel's design work, but such plans look iffy now to say the least.
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These disruptions hurt Intel during a very difficult period for the company. It had appeared that Intel managed to correct the chip delay issues and strategy mistakes that plagued it during 2004. Instead, the company this week delayed work on both its Itanium and Xeon lines, giving AMD a chance to take even more market share from the giant.
Intel declined to comment for this

 

[Valium]

India doesn't appreciate their own fucking Indians?