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Qualcomm begins India job cuts as handset chip sales slide
What happened
Qualcomm has started laying off employees in India, its largest engineering base outside the US. The move is part of the chipmaker's performance-focused global workforce reduction, which the source links to a fall in smartphone chip sales. The source does not state the number of employees affected or a timeline for the layoffs.
Impact and signal
Medium impactImpact score: 40/100
Affected components and suppliers
smartphone chips
layoffsIndiaworkforce reductionsmartphone chip sales decline
Source and time
Source: DigiTimes Asia · 11/12/2026 · View original source
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