Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’
That’s a lot of layoffs.
So they got all that money from Uncle Sam's CHIPS Act only to lay off 10,000 employees and make themselves "lean". Govt funded unemployment.
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There’s a dude in wallstreetbets who dumped a $700k inheritance into Intel stocks. lol
Meh, he bought a significant dip, even if it goes lower in the coming months, in a few years he will be way up. It's not like Intel will go away, they are in a duopoly market.
Intel has been down from around 50 YTD to 30 likely in a few years it will be back to 50 and he will close to double his money
Though he could have probably just put the 700K into S&P 500 and have his retirement taken care of, since he is in his 20s
Yeah but still... could've at least waited a day
Holy F, what an idiot nepo baby. Maybe daddy who pays for college works as a VP at intel
Dude, what the heck is wrong with people. Wealth is wasted on the stupid.
its mainly that our modern culture worships money and things whoever has more of it is inherently better.
So rich people make bad decisions because they think that being rich means they are always right, and that their ideas are special and magical and come from a mystical realm of refined thought only people with stacks of cash possess.
And when they fail, they blame everything except their greed focused short sightedness.
Layoffs usually cause the stock prices to increase because it shows the company is being "lean" and "cutting the fat".
Yeah, Intel is down 33% over the last two days... didn't work this time..
Some layoffs can be seen as "improving efficiency". This deep of cut is "oh shit, things are screwed".
It has me oddly hopeful. It sounds like they may have finally realized that they can't ignore their core product/purpose. However, whether it's too late or if they have the ability to actually execute is still to be seen.
Frankly, no idea. They talked the talk, but it's vague enough that I wouldn't be surprised if they cut out some important people and kept a lot of the bogus crap.
Speaking from a company that has seen (less dramatic) rhetoric around similar circumstances, and everyone on the ground who understood nuance would have guessed certain projects to get canned. Then it turns out they treated the money losing projects as the sacred cows and cut the profitable projects to the bone and put them at risk rather than give up the losers.
Capitalist machines of this size blinded by profits seem to be unable to see what's actually happening or make logical decisions.
I had a friend in the '90s who took a $40K inheritance and "invested" it all on $75 Fossil watches, the kind with Popeye and other cartoon characters on them. At least she was able to show them off at parties and get all the guests to go home.