In April, Intel attempted to announce layoffs without announcing layoffs. Intel says it will retreat from planned projects in Germany and Poland, end its assembly and test operations in Costa Rica, and finish 2025 with just around 75,000 “core employees” in total. Intel employed 109,800 people at the end of 2024, of which 99,500 were “core employees,” so the company is pushing out around 24,000 people this year — shrinking Intel by roughly one-quarter. Intel has had a presence in Poland since 1993, however, and the company did not say its R&D facilities there are closing. (Intel stated it would end the year with 75,000 core employees, but the 108,900 number we originally compared to was last year’s total headcount including other related businesses, not Intel core headcount, which was 99,500.)