HTC is currently unable to determine how many people were fired, reporting an estimated number of dozens or even 100. HTC spokesman confirmed the reorganization of North American departments in the statement, but also indeed downsizing personnel, in order to meet future business needs.
After the smart phone OEM R & D team was transferred to Google by the end of last year, in order to integrate resources and improve efficiency, HTC announced the organizational readjustments and plans to integrate the smart phone and virtual reality (VR) businesses. US layoffs should be restructured Part of
VR is currently the most important business of HTC.According to the VR platform Steam survey, HTC's Vive accounted for 47.26% of the high-end VR device market share, Facebook's Oculus Rift hot pursuit, the market share came 46.14%.