Laid off from Intel.
Intel's 2025 plan cut about 15 percent of its core workforce, and the record on what those separations paid is split. The coverage at the time said the buyouts and early retirement offers were gone, while Intel's annual report books $1.5 billion of employee severance and benefit charges under the same plan.
At a glance
What's known about Intel severance and layoffs
- About 4 weeks + 1.5 weeks per year · Historical template
- Enhanced retirement and voluntary offers · 2024 restructuring
- No buyouts or early retirement offers · 2025 foundry cuts, reported
- About a year of COBRA, typically · Historical healthcare
- $1.5 billion under the 2025 plan · 2025 severance and benefits, filed
- 85,100, down from 108,900 · Year-end headcount, 2025
- 103 jobs, Santa Clara, July 2026 · Newest filings in our tracker
Recent Intel layoffs
Intel's July 2026 notices cover 103 Santa Clara jobs
Four notices covering 103 jobs across Intel's Santa Clara buildings reached California's Employment Development Department in July 2026, the only Intel filings our tracker holds for the year. Intel described the work as aligning its Data Center Group, and the filing said career transition support would run through an outplacement firm for up to six months, with no bumping rights on any of the roles.
Previous rounds
Intel layoff history
Intel ran two workforce reductions of about 15 percent inside two years, and the two left very different paper trails. The 2024 round went out as voluntary early retirement and separation offerings, part of a $10 billion cost plan that included laying off 15,000 people, and Pat Gelsinger told employees those offers had already taken the company more than halfway to its target. The 2025 round went out differently. Intel said in July 2025 that it had completed most of the headcount actions needed to reduce its core workforce by approximately 15%, and that it planned to end the year with about 75,000 people in it.
What the 2025 round paid is where the record splits. Advisory and trade writing published while the cuts were running said that unlike Intel's earlier reductions, the 2025 layoffs came with no severance packages and no voluntary buyouts. Intel's own annual report for 2025 books $2.2 billion of restructuring charges, of which $1.8 billion was cash employee severance and related exit costs, and it assigns $1.5 billion of its employee severance and benefit charges to the 2025 plan specifically. Neither the coverage nor the filing names a document setting per-person terms, so both sit on the record and your own agreement decides which one describes you.
The geography is the least ambiguous part of the record. Our tracker holds 106 all-time Intel filings, 49 of them since the start of 2025, covering 5,598 jobs across four states. July 2025 carries the heaviest, including a single Hillsboro notice listing 1,544 jobs and a Chandler, Arizona notice listing 696 on the same day. Oregon kept absorbing them into the fall, when Intel told state officials it was cutting another 669 workers in Hillsboro and Aloha, in a state where its workforce had already fallen from a peak near 23,000 to around 18,000. Every Intel notice we hold sits in the WARN filings tracker with its date, its state and its count.
Manufacturing carried a named share of the 2025 cuts. An internal memo first reported by The Oregonian had Intel planning to cut 15% to 20% of workers in Intel Foundry, the division that builds chips for outside customers, starting that July. Intel itself declined to say which departments were affected, describing the work only as becoming a leaner, faster and more efficient company. The 2026 record is thinner. Our tracker holds 4 filings covering 103 jobs for the year, all in California, and Intel's quarterly report through June 2026 says the substantial majority of the plan's actions were completed in 2025 with the remainder expected in 2026, while still recording $161 million of severance and benefit charges that quarter. A thin year establishes what our tracker holds and nothing about separations that never reached a state filing.
The newest Intel event on record is small and specific, and it does name terms. A notice filed with California's Employment Development Department in July 2026 covered 103 positions across four Santa Clara buildings, with outplacement support for up to six months and no bumping rights. That state's agency says that when an employer with 75 or more people cuts 50 or more of them inside 30 days, written notice has to arrive 60 days ahead, carrying the expected date of the first separation and the job titles affected. Check yours against that. Then check your equity and ESPP dates early, because an August 2025 advisory guide put unvested Intel stock as cancelled at separation for anyone short of retirement eligibility, with roughly 90 days to exercise what had vested and any unfinished ESPP period refunded within two to four pay periods.
Reporting on previous Intel layoff rounds
July 2026 · Four notices covered 103 positions across four Santa Clara buildings, work Intel described as aligning its Data Center Group.
Career transition support through an outplacement firm for up to six months, with no bumping rights on any of the roles.
2025 · Intel said it had finished most of the actions to cut its core workforce by about 15% and expected to end the year near 75,000 people. Filings covered more than 5,000 across four states by mid-July, and Oregon added 669 more in November.
Coverage at the time said the round came without severance packages or voluntary buyouts. Intel's annual report assigns $1.5 billion of employee severance and benefit charges to the same plan.
Historical practice through 2025 · Periodic reductions across decades. The terms here come from an advisory guide captured in July 2025, not from Intel.
A fixed number of weeks plus weeks for length of service, with accrued vacation and sabbatical paid out, bonuses prorated, and about a year of COBRA.
August 2024 · A $10 billion cost plan that included laying off 15,000 people, reported as 15% of the workforce.
Voluntary early retirement and separation offerings, reported at four months' salary at five years of service, 10 months past 10 years and 19 months past 30.
How Intel's layoffs compare to other companies
An advisory guide to Intel separations described a structure with real shape to it, roughly 4 weeks plus 1.5 weeks per year of service, accrued vacation and sabbatical paid out, and annual and quarterly bonuses prorated. None of it appears on record as published Intel policy. The 2025 round is documented differently, as charges in a filing rather than terms in a memo, so read the older numbers as history and your own offer as the binding version.
What to do after being laid off from Intel
- File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Intel's biggest hubs: Oregon, California, Arizona. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
- Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Intel's hub states run: Oregon, California, Arizona, and every other state is here.
- Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
- Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
- Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.
Intel layoff and severance questions
What has Intel's traditional severance looked like?
An advisory guide to Intel separations, captured in July 2025, described the structure as a fixed number of weeks plus weeks for length of service, using 4 weeks plus 1.5 weeks per year as its example, so twenty years came to about 30 weeks. The same guide described accrued vacation and sabbatical paid out, bonuses prorated, and about a year of COBRA. That was what one advisory firm saw as typical, not a formula Intel published.
Did the 2025 Intel cuts come with severance?
Two answers sit on the record and they don't match. Coverage published during the rounds said the 2025 layoffs came with no severance packages and no voluntary buyouts, unlike Intel's earlier reductions. Intel's annual report for 2025 records $1.8 billion of cash employee severance and related exit charges, and assigns $1.5 billion of its employee severance and benefit charges to the 2025 plan. Neither one gives per-person terms, so the answer lives in your own agreement.
How many Intel layoffs show up in WARN filings?
Our tracker holds 106 all-time Intel filings, and 49 of them since the start of 2025, covering 5,598 jobs across four states. The largest single notice is a Hillsboro, Oregon filing from July 2025 listing 1,544 jobs, with 696 in Chandler, Arizona the same day. Those counts shift when states publish or correct their archives, and they cover the notices our tracker holds rather than every Intel separation.
Does the drop in Intel WARN filings during 2026 mean the cuts are finished?
It establishes less than it looks like. The tracker holds 4 Intel filings for 2026, covering 103 jobs in one state. Intel's quarterly report through June 2026 says the substantial majority of the 2025 plan's actions were completed in 2025 with the remainder expected in 2026, and it still recorded $161 million of employee severance and benefit charges that quarter. Fewer filings in our tracker is what the year establishes, not that the cuts are over and not a count of every separation Intel made.
What should I check in my Intel separation paperwork?
Start with the notice. California's Employment Development Department says a WARN notice has to state whether the action is permanent or temporary, give the expected date of the first separation and the schedule for any that follow, and list job titles and the number of people affected by title. Then check the dates that move on their own. An August 2025 advisory guide put unvested Intel stock as cancelled for anyone laid off short of retirement eligibility, with roughly 90 days to exercise what had vested.
Where do I file for unemployment after being laid off from Intel?
In the state where you worked, not where the company is headquartered. Intel's biggest U.S. hubs are Oregon, California, Arizona. Severance usually doesn't block you from filing, and benefits run from your filing date, so file the same week.
Is it OK to file for unemployment after a layoff at Intel?
Yes. Unemployment insurance is funded by payroll taxes employers pay on wages, the claim never appears on credit reports or background checks, and future employers cannot see it. If the hesitation itself is the obstacle, whether filing is OK has its own article.
What happens to my health insurance after a layoff at Intel?
Your plan sets the end date rather than the law, so the separation packet is where that date actually lives, and it is often the last day of the month rather than your last day of work. After coverage ends, COBRA lets you keep the identical plan by paying the whole premium yourself, up to 102 percent of what the plan really costs, which lands as several times the payroll deduction you were used to. You get 60 days to elect, counted from the later of coverage ending or the election notice arriving, and electing reaches the coverage back to the day the old plan stopped so no gap exists. How continuation coverage works walks the timing, and whether to take it rather than a marketplace plan is a separate decision.
Should I sign the severance agreement right away?
First pin down how much review time you actually have. If you're 40 or older, federal law gives you 21 days to consider an agreement that waives age claims, 45 in a group layoff, and a waiver signed under a shorter deadline can be invalid. If you're under 40, no federal window applies and the deadline in your packet may be real, so confirm it in writing and ask for more time if you need it. Use whatever window you have to read the release terms, especially non-disparagement and no-lawsuit clauses, and don't stall past a real deadline, because offers can be withdrawn.
Can I collect unemployment if I got severance from Intel?
Usually yes, though some states delay benefits until severance pay periods end, and lump sums are treated differently than salary continuation. Check your state's rules on our state benefit pages, and file immediately either way so your claim date is locked in.