Intel reveals it will lose 33,000 employees this year and retreat in Germany, Poland, and Costa Rica

In April, Intel attempted to denote layoffs without announcing layoffs. “We person not acceptable immoderate headcount simplification target,” Intel spokesperson Sophie Metzger told The Verge. But the institution has laid disconnected thousands of employees since — and today, successful the company’s Q2 2025 earnings, it has revealed that Intel volition dramatically shrink arsenic a effect of those layoffs. Intel says it volition retreat from planned projects successful Germany and Poland, extremity its assembly and trial operations successful Costa Rica, and decorativeness 2025 with conscionable astir 75,000 employees successful total.

Since Intel employed 109,800 radical astatine the extremity of 2024, that means the institution is pushing retired astir 33,000 radical this twelvemonth — shrinking the full institution by astir one-third.

In Costa Rica, where Intel employs implicit 3,400 people, the institution volition “consolidate its assembly and trial operations successful Costa Rica into its larger sites successful Vietnam.” In Germany and Poland, wherever it was readying to walk tens of billions of dollars respectively on “mega-fabs” that would employment 3,000 workers, and connected an assembly and trial facility that would employment 2,000 workers, the institution volition “no longer determination guardant with planned projects” and is seemingly axing them entirely.

Intel has had a beingness in Poland since 1993, however, and the institution did not accidental its R&D facilities determination are closing. (Intel had antecedently pressed intermission connected the caller Germany and Poland projects “by astir 2 years” back successful 2024.)

The institution is besides cutting backmost successful Ohio: “Intel volition further dilatory the gait of operation successful Ohio to guarantee spending is aligned with marketplace demand.”

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