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SAP employeesโ€™ trust in leadership has diminished since the restructuring

3 December 2025 at 02:09

SAPโ€™s restructuring may have been good for its bottom line, but behind the scenes, it has backfired.

The company did what it promised, said Greyhound Research chief analyst Sanchit Vir Gogia: It wrapped up its restructuring plan, affecting 10,000 employees, by early 2025, kept headcount steady, and delivered strong financial results. But, he said, โ€œNumbers only tell half the story. Inside the organization, something broke.โ€

Thatโ€™s evidenced by a recent internal survey, which revealed that many staff no longer trust company leaders or their strategy.

Trust in SAPโ€™s executive board has fallen by six percentage points since April, to a mere 59%, Chief People Officer Gina Vargiu-Breuer wrote in an internal email seen by Bloomberg. In April 2021, that number was more than 80%, said Bloomberg, citing a local media report.

Confidence in SAPโ€™s execution of its strategy has now dropped to 70%, from 77% in April of this year.

No time to learn

โ€œThat number drops even further in Germany, where only 38% say they fully trust leadership,โ€ Gogia said. โ€œAnd itโ€™s not just a sentiment dip. Over 38,000 employees voiced specific concerns. The pattern is clear: confusion around new performance goals, not enough support to implement AI, unstable team dynamics, and barely any breathing room to learn.โ€

This isnโ€™t resistance to change: โ€œPeople get the vision,โ€ he said. โ€œThe problem is executional load. You cannot drive large-scale transformation, especially AI-first initiatives, without building systems that carry your people with you.โ€

As part of SAPโ€™s plan to transform into a skills-led company by 2028, 80% of employees were to be assigned to modernized job profiles by the middle of this year, SAP chief people officer Gina Vargiu-Breuer told financial analysts attending a company event in May. This was intended to โ€œunleash AI-personalized growth opportunitiesโ€ based on an โ€œexternally benchmarked global skills taxonomyโ€ of 1,500 future-ready skills, she said. The company devotes 15% of working time to continuous personal development, she said.

In the recent email seen by Bloomberg, however, she admitted: โ€œThe feedback shows that not every step [in the transformation] has landed how it should.โ€

Unfiltered Pulse

In an email statement to CIO, SAP said that the Unfiltered Pulse survey that highlighted the issues โ€œwas designed to gather nuanced feedback from employees, focusing on both strengths and areas for improvement. Employees, for instance, have stated that helpful feedback as well as learning and development opportunities are supporting their growth. Results related to team culture are also positive worldwide.โ€

SAP said 84% of its more than 100,000 employees responded to the most recent of the surveys, conducted every six months, and while there were some positives this time, โ€œthe findings also clearly indicate that employee engagement and trust in the board require attention. Following increases in sentiment in the previous iteration, there has been a decrease in the recent Pulse survey. We greatly value this feedback and are taking targeted action in response. We are therefore implementing specific measures to address the input from our employees and to drive meaningful change.โ€

SAP has not revealed details of these measures.

However, Info-Tech Research Group senior advisory analyst Yaz Palanichamy said, โ€œSAP employees feel a sense of disillusionment as a result of the efforts undertaken in supporting this restructuring program.โ€

While SAP had framed the initiative as a strategic pivot towards embracing scalable cloud and AI growth, he said, the sheer number of roles affected, and the way that number ballooned well beyond the original target of 8,000, has left many of SAPโ€™s employees concerned about their jobs and about senior leadership.

They worry about organizational stability and clarity, and about whether there is adequate support for their reskilling, he said: โ€œIf the cultural and operational gaps concerning morale, talent retention, and organizational role alignment are not proactively addressed, this could severely hinder SAPโ€™s growth ambitions [in cloud and AI].โ€

SAP is not alone

SAP isnโ€™t the only company that has faced these issues, Gogia pointed out. โ€œLook beyond SAP, and the same symptoms show up elsewhere. Salesforce saw trust scores crater after its 2023 layoffs. Oracleโ€™s morale took a hit when staff felt shut out of decisions. But SAPโ€™s case stands out because performance at the top was solid, yet employee confidence eroded underneath. That divergence is dangerous. When momentum at the surface isnโ€™t backed by alignment at the core, cracks appear in delivery, consistency breaks down, and partners feel the wobble. Execution doesnโ€™t fail all at once. It frays. Quietly. Progressively.โ€

SAP isnโ€™t ignoring the issues, he noted. It has begun to take action, appointing leaders, communicating priorities, and revisiting how teams are measured.

โ€œThatโ€™s good,โ€ he said. โ€œBut the real fix will come not from announcements but from behavioral evidence. Trust comes back when people stop guessing whatโ€™s next, when systems stabilize, when leaders stay visible, when workloads balance out.โ€

์ธํ”„๋ผ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋Š”๋ฐโ€ฆMS ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ž„์› 2๋ช…์€ โ€˜ํ‡ด์‚ฌโ€™

27 November 2025 at 00:34

๋งˆ์ดํฌ๋กœ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ(MS)๊ฐ€ ์ฝ”ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ(Copilot)๊ณผ ์• ์ €(Azure) AI ์„œ๋น„์Šค์˜ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰ ํ™•๋Œ€์— ์†๋„๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ์™€ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ ๋ถ„์•ผ์˜ ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋ฆฌ๋” 2๋ช…์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ฌ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ์ „๋ ฅ ์ง‘์•ฝ์  AI ์›Œํฌ๋กœ๋“œ ์ˆ˜์š”๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ค ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด ๊ฐ๋‹นํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

MS๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚œ 2๋ช…์€ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ ์ด๊ด„ ๋‹ˆ๋”” ์ฐจํŽ ๊ณผ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ยท๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๋งก์•„์˜จ ์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋””๋ ‰ํ„ฐ ์…˜ ์ œ์ž„์Šค๋‹ค. MS์—์„œ 6๋…„ ๋ฐ˜ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ทผ๋ฌดํ•œ ์ฐจํŽ ์€ MS, ์˜คํ”ˆAI, ์•คํŠธ๋กœํ”ฝ์˜ ์›Œํฌ๋กœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ AI GPU ํด๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ๊ตฌ์ถ•์„ ์ด๊ด„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ์ž„์Šค์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ์ดํ›„ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๋กœ ์ด์งํ•  ์˜ˆ์ •์ธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์กŒ๋‹ค.

์‹œ๋‹ˆ์–ด ๋ฆฌ๋”์˜ ์—ฐ์ด์€ ํ‡ด์‚ฌ๋Š” MS๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ์—… ์ „๋ฐ˜์—์„œ ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•˜๋Š” AI ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ๋ถ€์ง€ ํ™•๋ณด, ์ „๋ ฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๊ณ„์•ฝ, ๋งž์ถคํ˜• ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์— ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ์ด์–ด๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ์ ์— ๋ฐœ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋ชจ๋‘ MS์˜ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ ํ™•์žฅ ์ „๋žต์„ ์ด๋Œ๋˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋™์‹œ์— MS๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์—…์ฒด์™€ ๋งˆ์ฐฌ๊ฐ€์ง€๋กœ ์ „๋ ฅ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ ๋ถ€์กฑ, ์ „๋ ฅ๋ง ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ง€์—ฐ, AI ํ™•์žฅ์„ ๋’ท๋ฐ›์นจํ•  ๊ฐ€์†๊ธฐ ํ™•๋ณด ๋‚œํ•ญ ๋“ฑ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ์ธํ”„๋ผ ์ œ์•ฝ์— ๋ถ€๋”ชํžˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ด์™€ ๊ด€๋ จํ•ด MS AI ๋ถ€๋ฌธ CEO ๋ฌด์Šคํƒ€ํŒŒ ์ˆ ๋ž˜์ด๋งŒ์€ X์— โ€œ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ๊ฑด์„ค์— 1,500๋งŒ ๋…ธ๋™ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ํˆฌ์ž…ํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒŒ์žฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์— ํ…Œ์Šฌ๋ผ CEO ์ผ๋ก  ๋จธ์Šคํฌ๋Š” โ€œ๊ทธ ๋ฐฉ์‹์ด ๊ณผ์—ฐ ๋งž๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ƒโ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

MS๊ฐ€ ์ง๋ฉดํ•œ ์ œ์•ฝ

์—…๊ณ„ ๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ž„์› 2๋ช…์˜ ์—ฐ์‡„ ์ดํƒˆ์ด AI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์ด ํ•œ์ธต ์น˜์—ดํ•ด์ง„ ์‹œ์ ์—์„œ MS์— ์ ์ง€ ์•Š์€ ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ดค๋‹ค. ์˜คํ”ˆAI์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ ๋ชจ๋ธ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋Š˜๊ณ , ๊ตฌ๊ธ€์ด ์ธํ”„๋ผ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฑ MS๊ฐ€ ์–‘์ชฝ์—์„œ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค.

์นด์šดํ„ฐํฌ์ธํŠธ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์˜ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ ๊ฒธ ๊ณต๋™ ์„ค๋ฆฝ์ž ๋‹ ์ƒค๋Š” โ€œ์ด ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด ์˜จ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์„ ์žƒ์€ ๊ฒƒ์€ MS์— ๋ถ„๋ช…ํ•œ ํƒ€๊ฒฉ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๊ณผ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์€ ๊ฒฐ์ฝ” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋‘ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋” ํฐ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์„ ํ–‰์‚ฌํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋ณด์ƒ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ ์œ ๋ฆฌํ•œ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ดค์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๋„ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

ํ•œํŽธ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜ ์‚ฐ์—… ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ VP ํ”„๋ผ๋ถ€ ๋žŒ์€ MS๊ฐ€ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ AI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋‚˜๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„์™€ ์กฐ์ง์  ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๋ณด์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ‰๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ดํ•˜์šด๋“œ ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์˜ ์ˆ˜์„ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ์‚ฐ์น˜ํŠธ ๋น„๋ฅด ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์•„๋Š” MS๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ๋ฆฌ์  ํ•œ๊ณ„๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๋น ๋ฅธ ์†๋„๋กœ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ์—์„œ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์ธ๋ ฅ์ด ๋– ๋‚œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ๋– ๋‚œ ์ž„์›๋“ค์€ GPU ํด๋Ÿฌ์Šคํ„ฐ ์„ค๊ณ„, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ์—”์ง€๋‹ˆ์–ด๋ง, ์ „๋ ฅ ์กฐ๋‹ฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  MS๊ฐ€ ๊ณ ๋ฐ€๋„ AI ์›Œํฌ๋กœ๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ง€์›ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ถ”์ง„ํ•ด ์˜จ ์‹คํ—˜์  ์ „๋ ฅยท๋ƒ‰๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ์„ ๋งก์•„์˜จ ์ธ๋ฌผ๋“คโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์–ด โ€œMS๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ธ์ •ํ•œ, ์ธํ”„๋ผ ์••๋ฐ•์ด ์‹ฌํ™”๋˜๋Š” ์ง€์ ๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ ค ์žˆ๋‹ค. GPU๋Š” ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋„์ž…๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์šฉํ•  ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ์ „๋ ฅ์„ ๊ณต๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์ด ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋ชปํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์นฉ ์ˆ˜๊ธ‰๋ณด๋‹ค ์ „๋ ฅ ๊ฐ€์šฉ์„ฑ์ด ๋” ํฐ ๋ณ‘๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ€์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์—”๋น„๋””์•„๊ฐ€ ์–ป๊ฒŒ ๋  ์ด์ 

๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ์ƒค๋Š” ์ œ์ž„์Šค์˜ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ํ˜์‹ ์ด ํŠน์ • ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์—…์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ๋ฒค๋” ์ƒํƒœ๊ณ„์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์ปค์กŒ๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ค๋ช…์ด๋‹ค.

์ƒค๋Š” โ€œ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๊ฐ€ ๋” ํšจ์œจ์ ์ธ ์ปดํ“จํŠธ-ํˆฌ-๋ž™(Compute-to-Rack) ์„ค๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ œ์•ฝ์„ ์™„ํ™”ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ ํšจ๊ณผ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—… ์‹œ์žฅ ์ „๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์‚ฐ๋  ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๊ธฐ์•„๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ํ‡ด์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ AI ์ธํ”„๋ผ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์—์„œ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ๊ณผ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์„ผํ„ฐ ํšจ์œจ์ด ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์š”์†Œ๋กœ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ๋„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ถ„์„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œMS์˜ ์ „๋ ฅยท๋ƒ‰๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•ด ์˜จ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„์— ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, ์ดˆ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ AI ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์ด ์‹ค์ œ ๋†’์€ ๋ถ€ํ•˜์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š”์ง€ ์—”๋น„๋””์•„๊ฐ€ ๋” ๊นŠ์ด ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์–ด โ€œ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์€ ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ GPU ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ์˜ ๊ตฌ์กฐ, ์—ด ๊ด€๋ฆฌ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฐจ์„ธ๋Œ€ AI ํŒฉํ† ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์„ค๊ณ„ ๋ฐฉ์‹์—๋„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น˜๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ง„๋‹จํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
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HP, ์ตœ๋Œ€ 6,000๋ช… ๊ฐ์› ์˜ˆ๊ณ ยทยทยท์›์ธ์€ โ€œAI ์ „ํ™˜๊ณผ ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šนโ€

27 November 2025 at 00:21

HP๊ฐ€ 2028๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ 4,000๋ช…์—์„œ 6,000๋ช… ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ๊ฐ์ถ•ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค. HP๋Š” 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ ˆ๊ฐ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•œ AI ์ „ํ™˜ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ผํ™˜์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

HP CEO ์—”๋ฆฌ์ผ€ ๋กœ๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 25์ผ ์ง„ํ–‰๋œ ์‹ค์  ๋ฐœํ‘œ ํ›„ ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์—์„œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์›์ด ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ, ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์šด์˜, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ง€์› ๋ถ€์„œ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ค„์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. HP๋Š” ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ • ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์•ฝ 6์–ต 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ 2์–ต 5,000๋งŒ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

๋กœ๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค์ฝœ์—์„œ โ€œ์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด 3๋…„์— ๊ฑธ์ณ 10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ํšจ๊ณผ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ•œ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฐ˜๋“œ์‹œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ผโ€์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

HP๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์›์„ AI ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์žฌ์„ค๊ณ„ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํ•„์ˆ˜ ์กฐ์น˜๋กœ ๊ทœ์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ 2๋…„๊ฐ„ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์„œ๋น„์Šค, ์šด์˜ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค ์ „๋ฐ˜์—์„œ AI ํ™œ์šฉ์„ ์‹œ๋ฒ” ์ ์šฉํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด์ œ ์ „์‚ฌ๋กœ ํ™•๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ๊ณ„์— ๋“ค์–ด์„ฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋กœ๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” โ€œ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ™•์ธํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค ์žฌ์„ค๊ณ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด๋‹ค. AI, ํŠนํžˆ ์—์ด์ „ํ‹ฑ AI๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•ด ํ”„๋กœ์„ธ์Šค๋ฅผ ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑํ•˜๋ฉด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋‘˜ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

HP๋Š” ์ ˆ๊ฐ๋  10์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฅผ ์ œํ’ˆ ํ˜์‹  ๊ฐ€์†์— 20%, ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๋งŒ์กฑ๋„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์— 40%, ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ์ œ๊ณ ์— 40% ๋น„์œจ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ๋ถ„ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์˜๋ฌธ ์ œ๊ธฐ

HP๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ AI ํ™œ์šฉ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „ํ™˜์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ผ๋ถ€ ๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‹ค์ œ ๊ฐ์›์ด AI์˜ ์ƒ์‚ฐ์„ฑ ํ–ฅ์ƒ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ธ์ง€, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ ์••๋ฐ•์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์กฐ์น˜์ธ์ง€์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์˜๋ฌธ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ดํ•˜์šด๋“œ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜์˜ ์ตœ๊ณ ์• ๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ ์‚ฐ์น˜ํŠธ ๋น„๋ฅด ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์•„๋Š” โ€œHP์˜ ์ง์› ๊ฐ์ถ•์€ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ AI ํ™œ์šฉ ํšจ๊ณผ๋ณด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ ํ†ต์ œ ๋ชฉ์ ์ด ๋” ํฌ๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋ฉฐ, โ€œํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ AI ์ „ํ™˜ ์ „๋žต์˜ ์ผํ™˜์œผ๋กœ ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, PC ์ˆ˜์š” ๋‘”ํ™”, ๋ถ€ํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ, ์ฃผ์š” ์‚ฌ์—… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ์˜ ๋งˆ์ง„ ์••๋ฐ• ๋“ฑ ๊ธˆ์œต ์ง€ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ „ํ†ต์ ์ธ ๋น„์šฉ ์ ˆ๊ฐ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋กœ ํ•ด์„๋œ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ์›์€ HP๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌํ•ด 2์›” 1,000๋ช…์—์„œ 2,000๋ช… ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ค„์ธ ๋ฐ ์ด์–ด ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๋Š” ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์กฐ์น˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์ด์ „์—๋Š” 2022๋…„ 11์›” ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ โ€˜ํ“จ์ฒ˜ ๋ ˆ๋”” ํŠธ๋žœ์Šคํฌ๋ฉ”์ด์…˜(Future Ready Transformation)โ€™ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ด 9,400๋ช…์ด ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ˆ„์ ๋œ ๊ฐ์› ๊ทœ๋ชจ๊ฐ€ ์ปค์ง€๋ฉด์„œ HP์˜ ์šด์˜ ์—ฐ์†์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋„ ์ œ๊ธฐ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์„œ๋น„์Šค ๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๋ถˆํ™•์‹ค์„ฑ ์ง๋ฉด

ํ•˜๋“œ์›จ์–ด ๊ต์ฒด๋ฅผ ๊ณ„ํšํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ฒค๋” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” CIO ์ž…์žฅ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ด๋ฒˆ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ •์ด ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ˆ˜์ค€๊ณผ ๋‚ฉ๊ธฐ์ผ์— ์–ด๋–ค ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ฏธ์น ์ง€ ์šฐ๋ คํ•  ๋งŒํ•˜๋‹ค. ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์— ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน ์••๋ฐ•๊นŒ์ง€ ๋”ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ํ”ผํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋„ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๊ธฐ์•„๋Š” HP์™€ ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ •์„ ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ฒค๋”์—์„œ ์ด๋ฏธ ์šด์˜์ƒ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ทธ๋Š” โ€œ์ผ๋ถ€ HP ๊ณ ๊ฐ์€ ์ง€์—ญ ์ง€์› ์กฐ์ง์ด ์žฌํŽธ๋œ ์ดํ›„ ๋ณด์ฆ ์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๋Šฆ์–ด์ง€๊ณ , ์žฌ๊ณ  ์ •๋ณด ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋„ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ต๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๊ธฐ์•„๋Š” โ€œCIO๋Š” ๊ณ„์ • ๊ด€๋ฆฌํŒ€๊ณผ ์ง์ ‘ ๋…ผ์˜ํ•ด ์–ด๋–ค ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ง„ํ–‰๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ˆ„๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ์˜์—ญ์˜ ์ „๋‹ฌ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋งก๋Š”์ง€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํžˆ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์กฐ์ • ์ด์ „์— ์ฒด๊ฒฐ๋œ ์ง€์›ยท์„œ๋น„์Šค ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์กฐ์–ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋น„์šฉ ์ธก๋ฉด์—์„œ๋„ HP๋Š” ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ์นฉ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ƒ์Šน์ด 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ์ˆ˜์ต์„ฑ์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์™„ํ™” ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์ ์šฉํ•˜๋”๋ผ๋„ ์ฃผ๋‹น 0.30๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ํ”ผํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

HP๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์••๋ฐ•์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณต๊ธ‰์ฒ˜ ๋‹ค๋ณ€ํ™”, ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ œํ’ˆ๊ตฐ์˜ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์ถ•์†Œ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์ธ์ƒ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋ณ‘ํ–‰ํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด๋‹ค. ๋กœ๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” โ€œํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ ๊ฐ€์ด๋˜์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ˆ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์—, ์ €๊ฐ€ ๊ณต๊ธ‰์ฒ˜ ํ™•๋ณด, ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ์ถ•์†Œ, ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ์กฐ์ •๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น˜๋ฅผ ์‹œํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋กœ๋ ˆ์Šค๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ HP๊ฐ€ 2026 ํšŒ๊ณ„์—ฐ๋„ ์ƒ๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋‹นํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์žฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ™•๋ณดํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ํ•˜๋ฐ˜๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์žฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์ง„๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ํ˜„์žฌ์˜ ๋†’์€ ๋ฉ”๋ชจ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์ƒ์‚ฐ ์›๊ฐ€์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋ผ, ๋งˆ์ง„ ์••๋ฐ•์ด ์‹ฌํ•ด์งˆ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

PC ๋ฐ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ๋ฒค๋” ์ „๋ฐ˜์˜ ํ๋ฆ„

PC์™€ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ๋ฒค๋” ์ „๋ฐ˜์ด ์œ ์‚ฌํ•œ ์••๋ฐ•์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, HP์˜ ๊ฐ์›๋„ ์—…๊ณ„์˜ ์ถ”์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„์„๋œ๋‹ค.

๊ณ ๊ธฐ์•„๋Š” โ€œHP, ๋ธ, ๋ ˆ๋…ธ๋ฒ„, HPE์—์„œ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ด์–ด์ง„ ๊ฐ์› ์‚ฌ๋ก€๋Š” ์ด๋“ค ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์šด์˜ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค. ๋งŽ์€ ๋ฒค๋”๊ฐ€ ๋Œ€๊ทœ๋ชจ ํŒ๋งค ์ „๋žต, ๋ฐฉ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ํฌํŠธํด๋ฆฌ์˜ค, ์ธ๋ ฅ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์˜ ์ง€์› ๋ชจ๋ธ์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜, ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”๋œ ์ œํ’ˆ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ, ์ค‘์•™์ง‘์ค‘์‹ ์šด์˜, AIยท์„œ๋น„์Šคยทํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ํ”Œ๋žซํผ ํˆฌ์ž๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ฒค๋”์˜ ์ „ํ™˜ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ด ์šด์˜์ƒ์˜ ๋ถˆํŽธ์„ ๊ฒช์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ง„๋‹จํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, โ€œ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์ „๋žต๋งŒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ์ „ํ™˜๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์•ˆ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์šด์˜์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€๋‹คโ€๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
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Amazonโ€™s Anthropic investment boosts its quarterly profits by $9.5B

30 October 2025 at 18:46
Amazon just opened Project Rainier, one of the worldโ€™s largest AI compute clusters, in partnership with Anthropic.

Amazonโ€™s third-quarter profits rose 38% to $21.2 billion, but a big part of the jump had nothing to do with its core businesses of selling goods or cloud services.

The company reported a $9.5 billion pre-tax gain from its investment in the AI startup Anthropic, which was included in Amazonโ€™s non-operating income for the quarter.

The windfall wasnโ€™t the result of a sale or cash transaction, but rather accounting rules. After Anthropic raised new funding in September at a $183 billion valuation, Amazon was required to revalue its equity stake to reflect the higher market price, a process known as a โ€œmark-to-marketโ€ adjustment.

To put the $9.5 billion paper gain in perspective, the Amazon Web Services cloud business โ€” historically Amazonโ€™s primary profit engine โ€” generated $11.4 billion in quarterly operating profits.

At the same time, Amazon is spending big on its AI infrastructure buildout for Anthropic and others. The company just opened an $11 billion AI data center complex, dubbed Project Rainier, where Anthropicโ€™s Claude models run on hundreds of thousands of Amazonโ€™s Trainium 2 chips.

Amazon is going head-to-head against Microsoft, which just re-upped its partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI; and Google, which reported record cloud revenue for its recent quarter, driven by AI. The AI infrastructure race is fueling a big surge in capital spending for all three cloud giants.

Amazon spent $35.1 billion on property and equipment in the third quarter, up 55% from a year earlier.

Andy Jassy, the Amazon CEO, sought to reassure Wall Street that the big outlay will be worth it.

โ€œYouโ€™re going to see us continue to be very aggressive investing in capacity, because we see the demand,โ€ Jassy said on the companyโ€™s conference call. โ€œAs fast as weโ€™re adding capacity right now, weโ€™re monetizing it. Itโ€™s still quite early, and represents an unusual opportunity for customers and AWS.โ€

The cash for new data centers doesnโ€™t hit the bottom line immediately, but it comes into play as depreciation and amortization costs are recorded on the income statement over time.

And in that way, the spending is starting to impact on AWS results: sales rose 20% to $33 billion in the quarter, yet operating income increased only 9.6% to $11.4 billion. The gap indicates that Amazonโ€™s heavy AI investments are compressing profit margins in the near term, even as the company bets on the infrastructure build-out to expand its business significantly over time.

Those investments are also weighing on cash generation: Amazonโ€™s free cash flow dropped 69% over the past year to $14.8 billion, reflecting the massive outlays for data centers and infrastructure.

Amazon has invested and committedย a total of $8 billion in Anthropic, initially structured as convertible notes. A portion of that investment converted to equity with Anthropicโ€™s prior funding round in March.

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