Entire Intel Automotive division got publicly executed on Circuit.
NEX is next.
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@ae and got golden parachutes on their way out... Typical!
@bs
Typically a Division knows when they are in trouble and about to be scaled back but a complete whacking is a more dire outcome.
There are always trouble signs a year ahead of an outcome such as this, but times are different now with LBT and DZ making the calls and being of the same mindset.
So if the whole auto group was laid off. Were they notified before hand or was the whole group just laid off without anything and found out via the news?
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/06/intel-will-shut-down-its-automotive-business-lay-off-most-of-the-departments-employees.html
Was a vanity project anyway , Intel can’t support these activities any more , nail was in the coffin as soon as it became part of CCG ; the business economics make no sense - even if the architecture did … we are doing nothing that others can’t do … so ki-ling it and moving on is the right thing to do, given the other issues the company has to deal with.
@b1
"... we are still talking about a couple thousand people working in FM..."
it's FM workforce gone after dozens of cuts !!
but heck even the Hudson site kinda still survives right?
Seems like a company that wants to stay relevant and take U.S. government money to do so would figure out how to build technology that America needs. High NA EUV lithography is not going to help keep cars and trucks on the road or bombs in the air. Give it time. The government will figure out Intel's scam.
@ay Auto is (was) part of Client... not even a large part, while it will certainly affects FM site, it is still far from being a site closure kind of scenario. is not a nice thing, and is certainly quite smaller than what it was in the past (and likely what it will ever be), but is not a site closure kinda thing, we are still talking about a couple thousand people working in FM.
The CHIPS Act, officially the CHIPS and Science Act, was passed due to the severe auto chip shortages that impacted the automotive industry and other sectors.
We don't need Intel's slightly new laptops every few years. I hate to pop your bubble but that's just meaningless bullsh-t. We need chips that keep America running....Like the so-called low margin Auto and Appliance chips.
@aw As far as I know, Oregon wasn’t involved with Auto. Folsom may be dead however (like site closure dead). The execution of Auto is really violent. Yesterday: silicon coming soon. Today: everyone stop everything.
My guess is that 18A is so terrible they couldn’t make a product with automotive reliability requirements work on it.
@a1 the original Tesla model 3 :)
Anyone know how auto closure will affect Oregon?
@a8 ain't nothing wrong with a legit job
Nex will survive.
@ak
Would Greg Clifton also be related to Tony Clifton as well??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtHyc43Firk
@ak this is the answer.
@a9 CHIPS has nothing to do with American cars. Greg Clifton was just brought on board, sole purpose is securing government and defense contractor business. Half the profit margins, a tenth the volume, 10 times the commitment. Foundry will stay alive only if it has customers, and there aren’t enough outside Intel TD… The rest of the focus will be on SoC AI design wins based on the other new execs. Lose either and Intel will fold. It’s 5 years behind on Foundry, so breakthroughs in architecture and packaging are the only ways forward.
Hopefully they get Doug Davis out of retirement and he can launch a start-up with all his cronies in Arizona and hire some of these people !! /s
@a6 ... auto products are low margin and they have incredible data retention requirements of 10 years or more to support potential recalls. It is not cost effective.
@a6 if risk averse why entertain their inquiries alternatives would have been find fast followers or other innovators oh wait they won't sign up for badly defined solutions, noncompetitive and not addressing the real market needs GLTA!
@ae
sure good point, but this is SPREAD all over Intel right?
These guys probably enjoyed huge salaries with very little contributions besides a few emails here and there.
Did anyone really thought it was going anywhere? not only it was not going to make any money in the short/medium term, but the projects were badly defined, and uncompetitive, not addressing the real needs of the market.
It was written on the wall from day one.
Intel lost the competition! As other areas it lost market (mobile, AI, ....), it lost this market as well.
Does anyone know how many people are impacted in Intel Automotive?
@a9 Right now future revenue doesn't matter. What matters is keeping the company afloat. And if that means cutting an expensive project that "may" produce results years from now, so be it.
Interesting. Intel once again abandoning what could have been a future major money maker. Auto chips is the MAIN reason for the Chips ACT. Let me guess: "Not enough immediate return on investment."
@a5
Culvers or Chipotle maybe? sorry cuz McD's is not expanding anymore..
@a5 No re-deployment like the golden days of Intel?
Moving people from a useless division into IOTG? OH WAIT that's gone too...
Auto companies are very averse to change, hence why we see them just now embracing anywhere-near modern technology. And as that is happening, Intel pulls out. Fine, if we don’t have the resources then I get it, but the design wins were building up in the pipeline, and across entire line-ups (finally). We’ve now shown, again, that we’re unreliable to customers who hate all risk. Last time we left this market it took 10 years for them to even start returning our calls (hence the slow results this time and I don’t blame them).
This is a “forever” decision, just like saying no to iphone. Good? Bad? We’ll see.
@a3 They will be flipping burgers at McDonalds
What's the outcome for the actual people who lingered on for the past 4 years?
strategy was d-mb to start
List the cars with Intel silicon.
Now weigh that revenue against the cost of the team.
Is it a surprise?