Posted on 05/09/2023 4:54:29 AM PDT by FarCenter
More layoffs may be imminent at Intel following the x86 giant's $2.8 billion Q1 loss.
Posting last week on Blind, a popular spot for techies discussing impending layoffs, one employee wrote that the corporation's Client Computing Group (CCG) was seeking volunteers, and that an involuntary round of layoffs would follow if there weren't enough volunteers. We take this to mean that Intel is offering buyouts for early retirement in some of its divisions. The employee also reported involuntary layoffs hitting the Datacenter and AI group (DCAI), with notifications to land in June.
Another staffer emphasized that these wouldn't be company-wide layoffs, but that a "huge portion" of the corporation is doing layoffs. Others referenced an all-hands meeting last week in which cuts appear to have been mentioned.
Over the weekend, SemiAnalysis's Dylan Patel, citing contacts within the chip shop, predicted massive layoffs were on the way. Patel's prognostications suggest Chipzilla's DCAI and CCG teams are each set for budget cuts of around ten percent. The analyst estimated that one in five employees working in those divisions could be cut. He also noted that logic technology positions would be unaffected by layoffs:
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Intel has warned of layoffs since October 2022, after the silicon-slinger committed to cutting annual spending by $10 billion. At the time, Intel execs said those cuts would include laying off a "meaningful number" of employees and dumping products.
In the wake of that decision Intel has cut several projects including a $700 million liquid and immersion cooling lab in Oregon, a $200 million R&D facility in Israel, reorganized its graphics division, canceled its Rialto Bridge datacenter GPUs, delayed its Falcon Shores APU, sold off its server design business unit, and canned its ill-timed cryptomining ASICs.
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AI.
‘Nuff said.
AMD is better and cheaper. Nuf said
Intel has selected a 1,000-acre site in New Albany, Ohio, to be its third major US chipmaking location, with construction beginning this year and operations starting in 2025.
When I think of intel laptops I think slow processors, loud fans, heat vents blowing hot air and poor battery life. That’s intel technology. They are light years behind Apple silicon.
Isnt there a chip shortage:-?
If there ARE layoffs, the woke will be the LAST ones standing. Intel has turned into an “All woke, all the time” company.
“When I think of intel laptops I think slow processors, loud fans, heat vents blowing hot air and poor battery life. That’s intel technology. They are light years behind Apple silicon.”
Power consumption has gone way down in electronic devices including Intel processors. Portable devices are the biggest sellers today and low power consumption is hugely important to their success.
“construction beginning this year”
In the current economic climate that may mean vacant land will remain vacant for years to come.
Time will tell.
>>When I think of intel laptops I think slow processors, loud fans, heat vents blowing hot air and poor battery life.
For decades the Wintel duopoly succeeded by having Intel make ever faster processors and Microsoft produce ever less efficient Windows operating systems.
But smartphone processors using ARM and smartphone OS from Apple and Google gave the game away. Even Microsoft is no longer cooperating.
The three year upgrade treadmill is thoroughly broken.
>>Isnt there a chip shortage:-?
Not of Intel chips. Beginning of year they had $2.7 billion in inventory.
3 years? Mine last 10. That's a working minimum. These days, CPU is not really much of a bottleneck. Last time I upgraded my desktop, it was because some critical software I use for work, would no longer run on the model processor I was using. Otherwise, I'd still be using that desktop, and it would be 13 years old.
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