Editor's Note: This article comes fromWu said blockchain (ID: yibenqkl), reprinted by Odaily with authorization.
Editor's Note: This article comes from
Wu said blockchain (ID: yibenqkl)
, reprinted by Odaily with authorization.
On November 29, Wu Jihan returned to Bitmain for a full moon. What happened in this month?
On October 29th, Wu Jihan sent an internal email, dismissing the former chairman Ketuan Zhan from all positions. Wu said that the blockchain has learned that within a month after Ketuan Zhan was dismissed from all positions, Bitmain is undergoing a smooth transition, and the top management hopes to unite people's hearts and develop steadily.
Bitmain has launched a new round of salary adjustment and 360-degree personnel performance appraisal. At present, only a few employees with strong internal opinions have been terminated from their labor contracts. These employees whose labor contracts have been terminated are basically from Huawei and 360, including mining machine sales, HR and cloud computing departments.
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Steady development, stable people's hearts
Mining machines and AI are the two core business divisions of Bitmain.
For the AI department, Wu Jihan handed it over to the head of government relations at Bitmain and an early R&D employee, and personally participated in the weekly AI business meetings. The AI department is the headquarters of Ketuan Zhan, with a large number of employees from Huawei. Wu Jihan emphasized many times at the staff meeting that he was the first to propose AI and recognized the value of AI.
At present, there is basically no abolition of the AI department. Wu Jihan's requirement for the AI business is to develop steadily. For Bitmain’s listing, the AI business can increase the imagination of investors, which is one of the reasons why Bitmain insists on doing AI.
However, some insiders pointed out that compared with Canaan’s less investment in AI chips, Bitmain has invested heavily in AI business under the leadership of Ketuan Zhan. The next-generation Bitmain AI chip BM1686 will incur a lot of fees for purchasing IP and tape-out. The cloud chip-based roadmap formulated by Ketuan Zhan will require a lot of investment in the early stage. It is not yet known how long Wu Jihan, who comes from an investment background, will tolerate this situation.
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Lay off a number of Huawei and 360 employees
Wu Jihan also emphasized at the staff meeting that the company's past culture of "licking up and stepping down" and the culture of only doing ppts must be changed.
According to the information obtained so far, only employees with strong internal opinions have been terminated from their labor contracts, and the number is only in single digits. When Wu Jihan took office, he sent an email to replace the person in charge of HR. The original head of HR came from Huawei and 360, and brought a large number of cronies from Huawei and 360, which were distributed in various departments of the company. At present, the employees whose labor contracts have been terminated are also from Huawei and 360, and they are distributed in human resources, mining machine sales, cloud computing power and other departments.
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