Intel Corp. has begun putting numbers to the layoffs it announced earlier this month, and in Santa Clara 165 jobs are going to be trimmed.
The giant semiconductor company, which has plants across he U.S. and globally, filed notices with the State Employment Development Department under the WARN Act, which requires advanced notice be given in mass layoffs.
The company is also laying off 152 employees at its Folsom plant.
Intel declined to comment, but the layoffs are clearly part of a trimming confirmed June 16 by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich.
Yes, we are implementing headcount reductions, he wrote in a memo to employees.
Krzanich wrote that the layoffs will touch no more than a few hundred employees in any given site or geography and are partly the result of eliminating jobs in areas of the company that have become less important, as well as trimming redundant activities and inefficiencies and managing what he called lower job performance.
Intel employs about 107,000 worldwide.
Photo: Intel headquarters (Len Lahman, Mercury News)
