htmlOn February 8, it is reported that Foxconn display panel department, Quanchuang Optoelectronics , plans to reduce more than 10,000 jobs this year.
"In five years, we will invest at least NT$10 billion (equivalent to RMB 2.1 billion) to recruit top talents and deploy artificial intelligence research institutes in all production bases." This is the answer from Guo Taiming in a recent interview with the media.
Recently, Foxconn announced that it will make major investments in artificial intelligence research and development, providing approximately US$342 million in the next five years, and will fully promote the group's transformation into an AI-driven industrial Internet enterprise from the fields of AI talent cultivation, IoT industrial field application, big data analysis, etc. According to reports, it is intended to recruit 100 top artificial intelligence experts around the world, and thousands of ordinary developers who are interested in it, dedicated to building deep learning technology for machines.
Foxconn, a global "Apple OEM factory", is gradually transforming from a hardware company to a platform company with soft power.
As one of the world's largest private employers, Foxconn's number of employees once reached 1.3 million. As the price of consumer electronics products is declining, China's economy has developed rapidly in recent years, domestic wage levels have gradually increased, and labor costs have been increasing. Foxconn cannot change the status quo. From a long-term perspective, automation is the key to ensuring labor costs are within a controllable range.
However, a relevant person in charge of Foxconn said that the company does AI or robots not simply replace employees, but rather allows robots to replace work content that is boring, employees are not willing and relatively dangerous in production.
