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Intel to lay off thousands of workers in the United States

Around 5,000 "surplus" employees will be cut from positions at Intel across the United States as it focuses on artificial intelligence.

Intel is making extensive cuts to its business, with layoffs in the United States affecting thousands of "mostly back office staff" employees, including those in California, Oregon, and Texas. These layoffs follow an internal broadcast from CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who told his employees that Intel is "not in the top 10 semiconductor companies" and that it's "too late" for them to train in-house AI models on hardware that could compete with NVIDIA's dominance in the sector ( via Oregon Live). In particular, Intel's Lunar Lake mobile processors from last year marked an impressive uptick in power efficiency and graphics performance in devices like laptops and the MSI Claw 8 AI+ handheld gaming PC, which I've recently been tinkering with and developing similarly high praise.

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