{"id":17039,"date":"2026-07-31T15:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T22:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17039"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T23:48:46","slug":"intel-oregon-has-laid-off-40-of-its-workforce-since-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17039","title":{"rendered":"Intel Oregon has laid off ~40% of it&#8217;s workforce since 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/silicon-forest\/2026\/07\/intel-plans-fresh-layoffs-this-time-in-its-data-center-group.html?outputType=amp\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/silicon-forest\/2026\/07\/intel-plans-fresh-layoffs-this-time-in-its-data-center-group.html?outputType=amp\">It sure ain&#8217;t pretty<\/a>. Estimates are there are 16,000 workers left, but that\u2019s down from 23,000 Oregon employees as recently as 2024 &#8211; which was also a decline from the years before that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intel&#8217;s global workforce has also declined from nearly 132,000 employees in 2022 to around 81,000 in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The state\u2019s economic development agency, warned that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/silicon-forest\/2026\/07\/oregons-chip-industry-risks-becoming-insignificant-globally-state-report-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon\u2019s semiconductor industry could become \u201cinsignificant\u201d globally<\/a>\u00a0if the state doesn\u2019t nurture new companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sure ain&#8217;t pretty. Estimates are there are 16,000 workers left, but that\u2019s down from 23,000 Oregon employees as recently as 2024 &#8211; which was also a decline from the years before that. Intel&#8217;s global workforce has also declined from nearly 132,000 employees in 2022 to around 81,000 in 2026. The state\u2019s economic development agency, warned that\u00a0Oregon\u2019s semiconductor industry could become \u201cinsignificant\u201d globally\u00a0if the state doesn\u2019t nurture new companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4qP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17040,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions\/17040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}