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a memo to employees Thursday, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Intel plans to
end the year with 75,000 “core” workers excluding subsidiaries,
through layoffs and attrition. That's down from 99,500 core
employees at the end of last year. 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.
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.
Tan said Intel is focusing on its “core product portfolio” and
artificial intelligence offerings to better serve customers.
“There are no more blank checks,” Tan wrote. “Every investment
must make economic sense.”
For the second quarter, Intel reported a loss of $2.9 billion,
or 67 cents per share, down from a loss of $1.6 billion, or 38
cents per share, a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, the
company posted a loss of 10 cents a share.
Revenue was flat at $12.9 billion. Analysts, on average, were
expecting adjusted earnings of 1 cent per share on revenue of
$12 billion, according to a poll by FactSet.
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