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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Intel Plans to Lay Off Up to a Whopping 30% of Its Workforce, Cutting Over 15,000 Jobs as CEO Lip-Bu Tan Declares That There Won’t Be Anymore “Blank Checks”

https://wccftech.com/intel-plans-to-lay-off-up-to-30-of-its-workforce-cutting-over-15000-jobs/

Intel Will Drop Out of the Cutting-Edge Chip Race If It Doesn’t See External Customer Interest, Possibly Marking the Fall of a Key Custodian of Moore’s Law

https://wccftech.com/intel-will-drop-out-of-the-cutting-edge-chip-race-if-it-doesnt-see-external-customer-interest/

Imagine telling this would happen to anyone just 10 years ago, they would have send you immediately to the asylum.

How much of it's workforce has Intel already fired in the last 2 years? Sounds to me like they fired at least half their staff by now.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Intel Confirms Nova Lake To Close The High-End Desktop CPU Gap With AMD In Late 2026, Bringing SMT Back To P-Cores With “Coral Rapids” On Servers By 2028-2029, Highlights Need To Consolidate On Xe GPUs, & 55% Server Share

https://wccftech.com/intel-nova-lake-cpus-high-end-gap-amd-late-2026-smt-back-p-cores-coral-rapids-servers-by-2028-2029-consolidate-xe-gpus/

This will become a make or break for Intel. Nova Lake needs to be competitive with AMD's offerings or it's pretty much over on the desktop.

As for the servers, it's a good thing that they bring back hyperthreading, not having it is certainly hurting them in the server space where highest thread counts matter most for most customers.

What we still don't know is where will Intel cut most of those jobs. The plant they were building in Germany will be a source of lay-offs, and the ones working on the Linux distro they canned a few days ago also seem like obvious choices. But Intel will still have to cut jobs in many more places and roles.

Let's hope, for their own future, that the cuts don't impact their engeneers the most, focusing instead on the middle managements the new CEO has complained about before. Otherwise, things will look bleak for Intel.

With that said, you never know. Just like AMD was all but done on the CPU business after Bulldozer only to make a miraculous comeback, Intel may do something similar in the future.