• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.
  • The forums have been upgraded with support for dark mode. By default it will follow the setting on your system/browser. You may override it by scrolling to the end of the page and clicking the gears icon.

Intel Looking to Lay Off Meaningful Numbers of Staff, Can Some Products, After Profit Slump

TheLostSwede

News Editor
Joined
Nov 11, 2004
Messages
18,642 (2.48/day)
Location
Sweden
System Name Overlord Mk MLI
Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard Gigabyte X670E Aorus Master
Cooling Noctua NH-D15 SE with offsets
Memory 32GB Team T-Create Expert DDR5 6000 MHz @ CL30-34-34-68
Video Card(s) Gainward GeForce RTX 4080 Phantom GS
Storage 1TB Solidigm P44 Pro, 2 TB Corsair MP600 Pro, 2TB Kingston KC3000
Display(s) Acer XV272K LVbmiipruzx 4K@160Hz
Case Fractal Design Torrent Compact
Audio Device(s) Corsair Virtuoso SE
Power Supply be quiet! Pure Power 12 M 850 W
Mouse Logitech G502 Lightspeed
Keyboard Corsair K70 Max
Software Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores https://valid.x86.fr/yfsd9w
Intel's third quarter financials that the company released yesterday, weren't exactly what you'd call stellar. This has put Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in a bind, as he's been forced to announce cost cuts of US$3 billion annually, starting 2023, but that it'll grow to somewhere between US$8 to 10 billion by 2025. Although Gelsinger didn't reveal the specifics of what these cost cuts will entail, he did mention quite a few potentials, according to The Register. Gelisinger stated that Intel "need to balance increased investment in areas like leadership in [technology development], product, and capacity [at new plants under construction] in Ohio and Germany, with the efficiency measures elsewhere as we drive to have best in class structures."

Intel's CFO David Zinsner, told Barron's that the company will be cutting a "meaningful number" of employees from Intel's payroll. Zisner went on to say that Intel will also perform "portfolio cuts, right-sizing our support organizations, more stringent cost controls in all aspects of our spending, and improved sales and marketing efficiency". It sounds like almost no-one is safe at Intel, especially as portofolio cuts mean that some product lines will either be sold off, or simply just canned in favour of more profitable products. Intel is also betting hard on its IDM 2.0 strategy, where the company is decoupling its hardware and software design teams from its foundry business. Time will tell if this helps restart Intel as a business, but Gelsinger seems to believe that the changes he's implementing at Intel will help turn things around.



View at TechPowerUp Main Site | Source
 
Very good goverment give money and them cut jobs

:mad:
 
Sh1t happens...
 

Can Some Products​


Can or can? :p Does that mean get rid of some products? @TheLostSwede

There was a discussion some time ago about Intel shit-canning its GPU division to re-coup some of the losses.
 
All those Arc delays after a huge investment couldn’t have been easy to speak to. Especially since they didn’t even make it to market until after crypto burst again. Had that product been launched even 6 months earlier, it might have made some money back. How do they justify keeping it alive now?
 
Maybe the Board should look at cutting Gelsinger's Compensation Package as well. Last year it was 179 million dollars.
 
Can or can? :p Does that mean get rid of some products? @TheLostSwede

There was a discussion some time ago about Intel shit-canning its GPU division to re-coup some of the losses.
Get rid of, yes, including product lines.
 
Maybe the Board should look at cutting Gelsinger's Compensation Package as well. Last year it was 179 million dollars.
I'm speechless. That financial package is disgusting.
 
"Forced"

Then you think... "Oh my god intel is going bankrupt", Oh no...

Last quarter profit: $6.8 billion.
CEO salary: $178.6 million
The $6.8 billion profit was for Q3 2021 - for Q3 2022 it was $1 billion, a decline of 85% year on year. But Intel did spend $6 billion on research and development (R&D) and marketing, general, and administrative costs (MG&A) for Q3 2022, up from $5.5 billion the previous quarter. This may well be the item that will mostly be targeted for reductions particularly the MG&A part of it...
 
Last edited:
Welcome to modern slavery. Here you are only cherished until it hits the fan. Then, top brass get hefty bonuses and poor Joes and Janes get sacked. But fear not - LinkedIn offers you the next best job in the world! (until cycle repeats)

I'm speechless. That financial package is disgusting.
As as said many times - do check 'Silicon Valley' out. It's spot on and you possibly have no clue how deep the rabbit hole goes.

"Forced"

Then you think... "Oh my god intel is going bankrupt", Oh no...

Last quarter profit: $6.8 billion.
CEO salary: $178.6 million
Do you know whose fault it is? It's the guys who were pretty happy and living it, only until it hit them - they are all inconsequential and they have outlived their usefulness.

Maybe the Board should look at cutting Gelsinger's Compensation Package as well. Last year it was 179 million dollars.
Maybe, yes. But will it happen? No.
 
Last edited:
The $6.8 billion profit was for Q3 2021 - for Q3 2022 it was $1 billion, a decline of 85% year on year. But Intel did spend $6 billion on research and development (R&D) and marketing, general, and administrative costs (MG&A) for Q3 2022, up from $5.5 billion the previous quarter. This may well be the item that will mostly be targeted for reductions particularly the MG&A part of it...
Yes, I just realized my mistake. Part of the aggressive investment in R&D is due to the risky entry into the GPU market where AMD and Nvidia reign with their decades of accumulated IPs.

In my ignorant and humble opinion, intel(CEO) makes extremely risky decisions that end up having this kind of side effect.
 
Still makes profits - layoffs?!?!

ohhhhh wait......

Gave wallstreet inflated covid profits - didn't meet those inflated profits - laying people off

Maybe layoff all the people that gave wallstreet those expected profit numbers??
 
Stuff like this really makes me question if Intel deserves my support in the future......got a 12600k now but man.....what an often pos company
 
I'm speechless. That financial package is disgusting.

I just did the math and it is 3x the amount of Lisa Su's... and Intel doesn't even have a GPU division that is successful. I guess they have vast majority share of businesses and servers though still, so maybe that makes up the difference, as there is a lot more money in those sectors than us gamers. Another reason I respect people like Lisa Su though, because you know, I love gaming and I don't want to ever stop gaming. I plan to be 75 in a nursing home playing emulators for nostalgia lol
 
Maybe the Board should look at cutting Gelsinger's Compensation Package as well. Last year it was 179 million dollars.
The shareholders just voted to ixnay that package and they still bleeding cash. The board was probably pushing it thru till...

 
The shareholders just voted to ixnay that package and they still bleeding cash. The board was probably pushing it thru till...


Nice find. @the54thvoid turns out you weren't the only one who was speechless. :roll:
 
major cuts needed for the PR Dept they seem to be a waste of space and resources.
They'll never let Shrout go. Who will make their misleading graphics then?? :laugh:
 
They'll never let Shrout go. Who will make their misleading graphics then?? :laugh:

Absolutely, there is no way they'll boot their prototype propagandist. :laugh: He's giving it all to become the next Intel CEO.

 
Tough facts are, is that many of these low-quality "diverse hires" and "office drama divas" should've never been at Intel and adding costs, delays, dramatic PR, etc. to its reputation.

It's best to cut off the fat and wait it out a few months and re-hire some excellent, DRAMA-FREE vetted talents.

Let the others deal with the untalents/office divas.
 
"Forced"

Then you think... "Oh my god intel is going bankrupt", Oh no...

Last quarter profit: $6.8 billion.
CEO salary: $178.6 million
The obsession with C class people is dumb, especially for bit companies as they are more sensitive to macro economics fluctuations.
Get rid of those overpaid useless CEOs, bring more engineers, marker experts, financial analysts... Etc people with real skills and who actually work.
 
Winter is here.
 
When there are layoffs at any office or information (non-manufacturing) job, they are never getting rid of the best employees (unless the entire company is shutting down). Layoffs are primarily an excuse to get rid of the worst performing employees without directly stating it. I just don't understand why offices wait to do this until they are losing money.
 
Back
Top