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Apple recently submitted documents to California, confirming that it will permanently lay off more than 600 employees.
It is reported that a total of 614 employees have been notified of layoffs, and the plan will officially take effect on May 27. The layoffs are partly due to the company's decision to terminate its automotive and smartwatch display programs.
This is Apple's first large-scale layoffs since the pandemic began in 2020, and the affected employees are mainly spread across eight offices in Santa Clara, California, while the company's headquarters has not been affected.
It's worth noting that Apple just announced a few weeks ago that it was halting its self-driving electric vehicle program, a decision that has attracted a lot of attention in the industry.
According to the New York Times, Apple has invested more than $10 billion in the development of the Apple Car over the past decade. Since its launch in 2014, the project has gone through more than a decade of twists and turns, and finally failed due to difficulties in the development of self-driving car software and algorithms.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk forwarded the news on social media, and Lei Jun also posted that he was shocked by it, and said that if it were him, he would never make such a decision.
Li Auto CEO Li Xiang has a different view, believing that Apple's abandonment of car manufacturing and focusing on artificial intelligence is a wise strategic choice, and the timing is just right.
Jia Yueting believes that it is a big mistake for Apple to give up building cars. The AI tram is the largest track, the largest application scenario and the largest carrier of AI technology. Apple's abandonment of building cars is a big mistake, which is not only a huge loss for Apple's future, but also the biggest lack of AI terminals in Apple's ecosystem.
Today, a video of a high-speed traffic jam scene turning into a SU7 auto show in seconds appeared on the hot search.
In the video, due to high-speed traffic jams, a board car transporting Xiaomi SU7 has become the most beautiful boy on the road, attracting a large number of men, women and children to watch, everyone has taken out their mobile phones to take pictures, as if they are in the 4S store exhibition hall.
Some children jumped up and shouted, "I want this car." There are also children who introduce Xiaomi SU7 to their families: "This is Xiaomi (car), with a low configuration of more than 210,000".
It is reported that the video was filmed in Tengzhou, Shandong Province on April 5. The photographer said that at that time, people got out of the car to take pictures of Xiaomi SU7, and even children could call it SU7.
"I didn't expect everyone to get out of the car to see it, and what I didn't expect the most was that many children could call it out."
On April 3, Xiaomi Auto's Beijing Yizhuang plant held a delivery ceremony for the first batch of SU7. At the same time, the delivery centers in 28 cities across the country have also started to deliver at the same time.
It is reported that the first batch of deliveries are the founding version. This will be followed by large-scale deliveries of the regular and Max versions at the end of April, and the Pro version will be delivered a little later, which is expected to be delivered at the end of May.
Note: The above comprehensive information comes from Fast Technology