Samsung Exynos chips have not been able to keep up with the fastest chips from Qualcomm, MediaTek and Apple in the high-end segment for years. Samsung reportedly views South Korea's workers' rights as one of the reasons for this, as employees are officially only allowed to work a maximum of 52 hours per week.
The USA, however, has no comparable limits, meaning that Qualcomm and Apple can demand more working hours from their employees, although the chip development teams of these two companies are also significantly larger, according to The Chosun Daily.
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“Is it the understaffing that’s a problem? No, it’s those lazy employees not working 84 hours a week!”
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“Is it the understaffing that’s a problem? No, it’s those lazy employees not working 84 hours a week!”