Intel layoffs continue — talent may be on the move

Lip‑Bu Tan, appointed Intel CEO in March 2025, sent a July 24 memo saying the company expects to end 2025 with roughly 75,000 “core” employees, down from about 99,500 at the end of 2024. (newsroom.intel.com) (pcmag.com) Intel told staff in late June 2025 it would wind down its automotive‑architecture business and lay off most employees in that unit while affirming it will honor existing customer contracts; Mobileye was reported as not affected by the shutdown. (techcrunch.com) (electronicsweekly.com) State WARN notices filed June 18, 2025 show Intel submitted layoff notices for 107 California employees with reductions scheduled to begin July 15, and the filings list impacted roles including physical design engineers and cloud software staff. (datacenterdynamics.com) Internal memos reported in mid‑June warned that foundry and factory operations could lose as many as 10,000 production roles beginning in July, and company filings and earnings commentary confirmed pauses or cancellations of expansion projects in Germany and Poland and shifts of some assembly/test work from Costa Rica to Vietnam and Malaysia. (techspot.com) (pcmag.com) Hiring data from regional startup directories and accelerator listings show sustained demand for AI engineers in the Bay Area: Y Combinator’s public company pages list 300+ Bay Area AI startups advertising roles, and a November 2025 tally found more than 1,100 open engineering positions across 301 YC‑backed AI firms. (ycombinator.com) (hackerx.org) Real‑time forum and layoff‑tracker activity documents ongoing churn and recruiter outreach, with threads and postings on Blind and TheLayoff showing thousands of comments and reports from impacted Intel employees since June–July 2025. (teamblind.com) (thelayoff.com)