It sure ain’t pretty. Estimates are there are 16,000 workers left, but that’s down from 23,000 Oregon employees as recently as 2024 – which was also a decline from the years before that.

Intel’s global workforce has also declined from nearly 132,000 employees in 2022 to around 81,000 in 2026.

The state’s economic development agency, warned that Oregon’s semiconductor industry could become “insignificant” globally if the state doesn’t nurture new companies.