Jobs Being Cut: Key Roles and Locations
- Over 300 Module Development Engineers – Responsible for chip design and process engineering
- 300+ Equipment Maintenance Technicians – Keeping Intel’s manufacturing tools operational
- Dozens of Data Scientists, Software Developers, and Product Designers
- Positions span Intel’s Jones Farm, Ronler Acres, and Aloha campuses. You can review all the cuts by position at this link at the State’s website.
Why the Cuts?
New CEO Lip-Bu Tan is driving a company-wide transformation aimed at cutting costs and increasing efficiency, particularly in Intel’s global manufacturing and support operations. This comes amid fierce competition in the AI and chip sectors, with rivals like Nvidia and AMD gaining market share.
Intel says affected employees will receive severance packages and job placement assistance. However, the layoffs still represent over 10% of Intel’s Oregon workforce — a major blow to the local economy.
Looking Ahead
This restructuring also raises questions about Intel’s long-term footprint in Oregon and whether promised fab expansions will remain on track. The economic ripple effect could be felt throughout Hillsboro, where many small businesses and services rely on Intel’s presence.
What Comes Next?
Amid the uncertainty, Hillsboro has an opportunity to regroup and reimagine its economic future. Editorial coverage continues in the Herald’s companion piece:
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This is our moment. We challenge all of you in this great valley, filled with dreamers, doers, and innovators- what’s next? We can and will, as we have in the past so many times, overcome this challenge.
To all of you who these firings have displaced, we are with you. May your paths open up and opportunities abound.
This new CEO did a bait and switch. He came in claiming he will reduce bureaucracy by thinning middle management ranks and make Intel an engineering focussed company. In practice, he is doing the opposite.
this really seems to be the case. How many VP’s were laid off or sent to engineering roles? because somewhere between 529 and 1800 engineering roles we just eliminated…
Yes, Tan is a Snake Oil Salesman
CEO bonuses will be in millions. Killing thousands making him more richer. America is great again.
Trickle down economics my friend, been watching this Reaganomics
Hillsboro is my birth place ,74yrs. ago. The high cost of living will not help the economy for Hillsboro.
Bring in the new and out with the old, which is easier said than done.
Oh joy! The dummies at intel sre layong off the rank and file instead of the 225k employees sitting at the corporate offices doing nothing… So much for costing the companyoney those idiots at intel…
More of the same sad news. Jobs gone, and all business will suffer. By any chance we getting any new business opportunities coming?? Hope so!!
Maybe this happens everywhere, but for centuries Oregon has put all of their eggs in one basket – then someone drops it. In the 18 and 1900 hundreds we logged the heck out of the Oregon territory that became the state of Oregon. We fished the ocean and rivers as fast as we could to capture and profit from nature’s bounty. Then, just about when those resources became over used, high tech came on the scene. Tektronix was a good employer and spread out but never got to big to fail. Then Intel came. And got bigger. And bigger. And bigger. Hillsboro gave them tax breaks so they would built here. Many associated companies sprung up beside Intel or because of it. The Silicon Forest, they called us. The wine producers began small and now are a hugh industry in Oregon, being promoted at every turn and the hospitality industry here is building itself around it. One major agricultural disaster could do us in; again.
My point is that it might be wise that the Next Big Thing in our still-beautiful state not be The Next BIG Thing – two or three kind of big things may serve us better in the long run. Diversify – if someone drops one of the baskets, there will still be some eggs left.
Very well said!!
So many layoffs in teach over the last two years all over the country due to offshoring jobs. It was only time Intel joined the trend as hinted in the article. Sad.
Agreed.
The city of Hillsboro shouldn’t necessarily be looking to grow right now. It should be looking at plans to trim staff, unnecessary projects and how it will protect and maintain critical infrastructure to the citizens of Hillsboro as its tax revenues shrink. Sometimes your best plan is how to simply keep your footing. Protect the wonderful things Hillsboro has and wait and see what happens with Intel and tax revenues in the next few years. Plan for alternative growth strategies beyond Intel. Growth should never be the goal of a good government though IMHO. Stability and protecting city amenities that the citizens rely on should be goal #1. Growth will happen as a result of a well run city.
100 percent agree. We have runaway debt and budgets. Gotta stop bleeding cash. Stabilize. Stop buying land at 1.1 million dollars per acre for the people of Hillsboro. Enough already!!!
Yes. I used to work with the city Engineering department regularly as a consultant. They had an excellent head engineer and his assistant was just as impressive. They had a fairly small staff and had most decent sized projects performed by consultants with fixed budgets. The department was efficient, well run and used tax dollars very effectively. Over the last decade the engineering department has grown into a behemoth. They prefer to design in house, but that means hiring a large staff of full time employees with generous government benefits. It appears to be out of control. I can’t help but see this same lack of care for our tax money throughout the city. I used to be so impressed with Hillsboro’s city government, not anymore.
Didn’t Intel receive billions in Chips Act funding? It doesn’t seem right that they can lay off hard working tax payers now.
You have an astute readership, who have prided great feedback.
I would also add that with these layoffs and attacks and termination of numerous programs by the Trump regime comes an opportunity to further develop micro businesses through a partnership between the many software engineers and vocational/technology programs in our colleges and high schools. Specifically, let’s use this time to create student startups businesses and build inexpensive drones for our friends in Ukraine, to counter the alleged drones that Iran, China and India are furnishing Russia. If you would like my help in getting started please contact me.
Now there is a great Idea!!