Intel layoffs will be of greater draft than they had been handling in the media and It will end up affecting a third of the templateaccording to the company in the last presentation of financial results.
Intel says that it plans to have a template of 75,000 employees at the end of 2025. Taking into account that the last year the company had 99,500 employees in the main workforce, the subtraction leaves some some terrible figures: 24,000 employees. If calculated on the total workforce including related businesses that added 108,900, the number of layoffs would amount to 33,000 affected. In any case, the figure is much higher than the one that had been handled.
Intel layoffs confirm the serious situation
Intel goes through the worst moment of its long history and urgently needs «Difficult, but essential measures to face the challenges of affordability and the current financial situation of the company».
Everyone understood that he referred to the template cut, although The layoffs in Intel were not expected to be such a dimension. Wall Street rules and has demanded that Intel show them the way to profitability. The layoffs are an important way to reduce an important part of the operational losses and there is the strategy. Of course, with this loss of workforce and talent it will be very difficult to return Intel to his best years as ‘chip giant’.
These cuts are part of the company’s current objective to reduce its non -gaap operating expenses to 17,000 million dollars this year and, subsequently, to 16,000 million dollars at the end of 2026. The effort to control the expense is also taking Intel to abandon some previously announced expansions. The company will no longer undertake new projects in Germany and Poland, and will consolidate its test and assembly operations in Costa Rica with those already existing in Vietnam and Malaysia. It will also slow down its growth in the United States, affecting the construction of new plants such as Ohio.
Intel’s executive director has also struggled to simplify the organization by merging and creating new divisions that meet demand. The priority is to achieve financial efficiency, so Intel will not undertake any project that does not present convincing financial perspectives.
Manufacturing and new releases
Intel Foundry, the chips manufacturing division that was supposed to be the great revulsive, will be one of the most affected and the megaphabric that were going to be built in Germany and Poland will be reduced or directly canceled. Intel’s CEO explained that in his opinion the company had invested too much in new factories before having secured sufficient demand, that its factories had “Unnecessarily fragmented” and that they needed to increase their capacity “At the same time they reached real milestones”.
«I don’t think if you build it, they will come. Under my leadership, we will create what customers need, when they need it, and we will earn their trust »he said so.
The CEO also advances relevant changes in the technical sectionwhere Intel has also been surprisingly behind. The successor of the main platform of Intel, Nova Lake, is still planned for launch at the end of 2026. The CEO claims to have «Taken measures to correct past errors with respect to multihilo capabilities» in the company’s performance nuclei.
In addition, he states that he personally assumes the responsibility of each new chip design with a new policy that, according to him, is already in force: «All important chips design must be Reviewed and personally approved by me before its launch«.
So he says that he will also announce a new leadership for the Intel Data Centers business next quarter and shared more about its strategy for a “Full -stack artificial intelligence solution in the coming months”main responsibility of the new cto and responsible for recently appointed.
Last quarter results
Intel reported income of 12.9 billion dollars for the second quarter of 2025. The data is slightly higher than the anterior quarter and is at the upper end of the forecast for Intel. Lip-bu so positively valued them: “Our operational performance demonstrates the initial progress we are achieving to improve our execution and promote greater efficiency”.
The Executive explained that they were focused on strengthening the main products portfolio and the AI roadmap to offer a better service to customers. «We are also taking the necessary measures to build a foundry division with greater financial discipline. It will take time, but we see clear opportunities to improve our competitive position, increase our profitability and generate long -term value for our shareholders ».
