This tech giant to sack 24000 employees, halt work on…, not Ratan Tata's TCS or Narayana Murthy's Infosys, it is…
Intel is undergoing major and challenging restructuring, announcing plans to lay off around 24,000 employees this year, nearly one in four of its workforce as of the end of 2024. The announcement was made during the company's Q2 2025 earnings report.
Intel Corp. is shedding thousands of workers and cutting expenses as its new CEO works to revive the fortunes of the struggling chipmaker that helped launch Silicon Valley but has fallen behind rivals like Nvidia Corp. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan's Memo To Employees
In a memo to employees, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Intel plans to end the year with 75,000 workers, down 31% from 108,900 employees at the end of last year, through layoffs and attrition. The company previously announced a 15% workforce reduction.
'I know the past few months have not been easy. We are making hard but necessary decisions to streamline the organization, drive greater efficiency and increase accountability at every level of the company,' Tan wrote.
In addition, Intel will scrap previously planned projects in Germany and Poland and also move assembly and test operations in Costa Rica to larger sites in Vietnam and Malaysia. Costa Rica will remain a 'home to key engineering teams and corporate functions,' Tan said in the memo.
In the U.S., the company said it will 'further' slow construction of a semiconductor plant in Ohio. What Was Missed By Intel?
Founded in 1968 at the start of the PC revolution, Intel missed the technological shift to mobile computing triggered by Apple's 2007 release of the iPhone, and it's lagged more nimble chipmakers. Intel's troubles have been magnified since the advent of artificial intelligence, a booming field where the chips made by once-smaller rival Nvidia have become tech's hottest commodity.
The Santa Clara, California-based company's market cap was $98.71 billion as of the market close on Thursday, compared with Nvidia's $4.24 trillion.
(With Input From Agencies)
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