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There are so many choices if you're a top talent in silicon. Apple, Amazon, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Broadcom, one of many AI accelerator startups, Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Microsoft, Meta, Google, ARM, TSMC, Micron, Samsung. Just off the top of my head.

Everyone is making custom CPUs or accelerators, or both nowadays. This isn't 2005.

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Many new companies are also trying to jump into this space. https://www.ndtv.com/business/tata-groups-big-leap-in-the-se....

How many of those companies fall under nebulous non-compete clauses? How many of the companies have anti-poaching agreements under the table?

Sure, just move to California where non-compete agreements aren't enforced

Wouldn't the previous employer in the previous state still be able to sue you in their state (as your old employment contract specifies that any disputes will be resolved in the courts of that previous state)?

Don't let previous employer know where you're working.

Your new employer will call your current employer when they do background checks, and will receive a legal threat about poaching in response.

Your new employer will also ask whether you currently have active non-competes against you, and may think twice before extending you an offer.

Probably none. It's illegal in the US and after what happened between Apple and Google's anti-poaching agreement, I think Silicon Valley has stopped. I haven't heard about any in a long time.

> Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu

No longer an option if you’re american

I think they still have offices here in the US and employ Americans. Alibaba has been scaling back though. Lastly, I don't think there's any law that prevents an American from moving to China to work.

https://careers.tencent.com/en-us/cityinfo.html?city=401

http://research.baidu.com/

Yes, but they are now forced to give up their American citizenship to do so. That's a very steep cost.

> Lastly, I don't think there's any law that prevents an American from moving to China to work.

IANAL but yes there are now

> Restricts the ability of U.S. persons to support the development, or production, of ICs at certain PRC-located semiconductor fabrication “facilities” without a license;

See: https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/about-bis/newsro...

I guess it won't stop Chinese citizens working at Intel to return home though.

Only if they don’t want to keep their visas/green cards. “us persons” can have different meaning but I’m pretty sure in this case it applies at least to gc

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