Intel Corp. is planning on asserting “focused” layoffs in November, in response to a report late Thursday, citing an inner video shared with staff.
After the shut of markets Thursday, The Oregonian reported that Intel
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Chief Govt Pat Gelsinger addressed staff through video, and promised extra particulars on Nov. 1. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel has a big campus exterior Portland, Ore.
“These are at all times arduous selections, however our prices are too excessive and our margins are too low,” Gelsinger informed staff, in response to the report. “We have now to take actions to deal with them.”
Margins have been a sore level for Gelsinger ever since he introduced his capital buildout plan since taking the helm of the chip maker in early 2021. Already, the CEO has needed to stroll again final yr’s promise that margins would stay “comfortably above 50%” because the annual margin forecast for the yr fell to 49%, whereas margins for rival Superior Micro Units Inc.
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have surpassed the 50% barrier just lately.
Earlier within the month, Bloomberg reported that Intel would announce layoffs “as early as this month.”
Intel is scheduled to report earnings after the shut of markets on Oct. 27. The final time Intel introduced a big spherical of layoffs was in 2016, when it introduced it was slicing 12,000 jobs, or 11% of its workforce, on the identical day it reported quarterly earnings.
Intel has about 121,000 staff worldwide.
“We’re not commenting on or confirming something on this story,” an Intel spokesman informed MarketWatch in response to a request for touch upon The Oregonian report. The corporate is at present in its quiet interval earlier than earnings.
Intel inventory dipped 0.8% in after-hours buying and selling. Shares closed Thursday up 0.3% at $26.08, whereas the PHLX Semicondeuctor Index
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rose 0.7%, and the S&P 500 index
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declined 0.8%. Yr-to-date, Intel shares are down 49%, the SOX index is down 43%, and the S&P 500 is off 23%.