Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

@h9 You've got some serious emotional issues, India-guy. Not going to bode well for you in your career, assuming you even have one.

Indian managers saved other Indians from the layoff, this didn’t happen for any other people that were laid off. Needs looked into from HR, complete corruption.

Decimated" = reduced by one-tenth

Which is an archaic definition of the word. Contemporary usage does not follow that definition.

@h9 False. "Decimated" = reduced by one-tenth. They suffered far more than that.

@h9 You've heard about the Boxer Rebellion? Western oppression of China is at least comparable to that of India.

But why is 200 years of oppression preventing Indians from creating their own global tech company in India? Since you have brilliant engineers in the West, you should far more talent in India. You don't need 1.3 B people to create a tech company. You have the workforce in Bangalore, Hyderabad, etc. What is preventing India from innovating at anything? I'm just stating what anyone can observe.

Now the troll will flood the thread in an effort to have it deleted.

I rest my case.

Anyone basing their argument on the intellectual superiority of the Amercan people would do well to look at the current administration. See what I did there?

@gr hey, don't "caste" aspersions (see what I did there?)

@gv the economic reform of china is a spectacular success story. By that measure the US is doing far worse than India, having outsourced all of our manufacturing there and creating the current industrial tech crisis. Long supply chains are bad especially if you insist that your strongest economic partner is also somehow your enemy.

We have enough historical context. China was poorer than India 40 years ago. The British abused and colonized India, but the entire West and Japan abused and humiliated China, more than India.

If you still have excuses for India, ask why India still does not have a worldwide tech company despite having so much Western investment. You'd think there'd more homegrown technological innovation by now. China, OTOH, has tech companies that operate on the same scale as every U.S. tech company.

To understand the Indian mindset, consider that Indians are proud to finally manufacture the iPhone. However, the Chinese are not only designing and manufacturing their own phones, but are also making the machines that make IC's, the peak of technological achievement.

These posts attacking Indians all come from the same trolls trying to stir up malcontent in Intel's workforce. They think it is a hot button. They don't know it isn't necessary because they don't work there and never have.

Asking questions like why India is so poor without any historical contexts whatsoever is like asking why the Congo is one of the poorest countries in the world despite having abundant minerals and natural resources.

Whitebread went around the world exploiting every nation under the sun for their own gains and now the chickens are coming home to roost. Look at Londonistan. Look at USA.

You go around meddling an ant hill next to your house and then you wonder why your house is covered in ants. Tisk tisk.

@ea
It takes many generations to get rid of the Indian culture and mindset.
Indians don't become Americans for at least 4 generations, unlike immigrants from other countries.
I know, I have Indians in my family.

If Indians are the reason for SV's success, then why is India still one of the poorest countries? Why is China technologically superior to India and competing with the West now, despite being poorer than India in the 80's?

Without Indians on work visa or those born and/or raised in US, there would be no silicon valley or the Mag-7 as they are today. Now with 50% tariffs on India, the US tech companies are going to go down the drain. TACO punishes India (our homeland), then Indians (all Indians) in US, punish US tech companies. If TACO holds the cards to play against India, then Indian (all Indians and generations of Indians in US) hold all the card in ALL industries (not only tech) in USA. We also know how to play card!

There is no U-turn on or stopping India's progress.

Indians are also Indian Americans. Be clear to distinguish H1B types from Indian Americans who helped build Intel through innovation. Now when it comes to H1B types keep the PhD and Masters degrees get rid of the rest. We need talent. RACISTS without skills use logic not ideology because you have no skills and are jealous of people who get ahead based on merit.

Check intel phone book most of ppl intel had in us, india has just few thousand ppl. Intel still need to transfer 40K employee to low cost geo. Check nvidia and AMD they have 70-80% in low cost geo.

OR / AZ office need to shutdown completely then only intel will be in profit.

Before commenting check real data about geo distribution.

@d8
Yes, Intel is responsible for hiring Indians that are all incompetent and talk versus work.
And yes, Intel has fallen too far to recover.

The OP and many commenters say all you need to know about the character of many white American Intel employees. Shameful.

Intel is responsible for its OWN demise. To blame it on Indians or any other people of color is just ignorance. And Trump will not “save” Intel from anything. The company will get carved up and sold off within the next couple years. The glory years of Intel dominance will never return.

I don't believe OP isn't Indian.

@AS should write a letter to Trump. This isn’t only at Intel.

It’s their plan all over US based companies. How many of you have seen those LinkedIn posts bragging about how many CEOs are from there now?

Indian are running over the competition.

@b7 you mean destroying the company and by free loading? That’s what they are good at, doing fake work and protecting their interest

@ap
And intel managers decided to hire an Indian, that is when everything started going in the garbage.

Indeed, too many India mafia. In my group (TD of 2000 people), 90% of managers are Indians, who have very low technical skills. Most Indian managers are just talkers and some are cheaters. Though my org is in Oregon, it is like working in India. I saw very bad politics played by Indian managers. They have no virtue and no moral. This is why I left because I do not want to work in an Indian company.

Intels fell because of these people!

No, Intel has fallen because of the decisions made by management. One of those decisions was to hire the wrong people to save some dollars. There were plenty of other bad decisions to go along with that one.

Who cares, it will fail. List the top 5 got to have it products developed in India by Indian companies. They don't exist. India has been a large population center in the world for millennia and yet it is still a third world country. Corruption, greed, nepotism, and over population will always keep it from succeeding. The per capita income in India is around $2.9k, in China around $14k, and the US around $67k. Considering the majority of China's growth has occurred in the last 50 years it is impressive.

Nothing new. Thats how all the industries work or come into life.

Intels fell because of these people!

Intel is the new DEC

As is with life, it is an eventuality that children will supplant their parents. Sometimes with positive results, sometimes negative.

Intel has long been called the “best university for chipmakers”, producing generations of engineers who carried its culture of precision, paranoia, and product discipline into the global semiconductor industry. Much like the PayPal Mafia in Silicon Valley, India today is witnessing the rise of an “Intel Mafia”, a growing group of ex-Intel engineers turned entrepreneurs who are building the backbone of the country’s semiconductor ecosystem.

Over the last two decades, Intel’s large presence in India provided deep exposure to chip design, manufacturing, and system integration. This training ground has seeded a wave of startups spanning ASIC design, RISC-V processors, AI inference chips, and edge computing solutions. As industry veteran Raja Manickam notes, Intel’s engineers had access to the entire chipmaking process, giving them the confidence and networks to start their own ventures.

Several standout figures exemplify this trend. Randhir Thakur, who once led Intel Foundry Services, now heads Tata Electronics and is driving India’s $10 billion fab project in Gujarat, positioning Tata at the center of India’s semiconductor ambitions. Dr Satya Gupta, who founded Open Silicon in the early 2000s, pioneered ASIC design services in India. His company, later absorbed into Qualcomm’s portfolio, trained a generation of engineers and laid the foundation for India’s fabless design ecosystem.

Other startups carry the same Intel DNA. Netrasemi, founded by Jyothis Indirabhai, is building low-power AI inference chips for edge devices, backed by Zoho and Unicorn India Ventures. Bodhi Systems, started by Intel veterans Sambit Sahu and Raghuraman Barathalwar, developed data center AI hardware and was acquired in 2024 by Ola-backed Krutrim. InCore Semiconductors, co-founded by ex-Intel architect Gautam Doshi, is advancing India’s RISC-V processor IP. Meanwhile, eInfochips, another Intel alumnus-led venture, became one of India’s earliest design services successes, acquired by Arrow Electronics for $327 million in 2018.

The ecosystem is also seeing bold moonshots. Agrani Labs, founded by several Intel veterans with decades of expertise, is working on AI-native silicon designed for transformer models that power generative AI systems. Alongside, stealth ventures like AheadComputing are reportedly developing next-generation RISC-V processors with support from early-stage investors.

Globally, Intel alumni have founded companies such as SiFive, Cerebras, and Ampere Computing, raising hundreds of millions and proving the commercial strength of Intel’s engineering culture. In India, however, the approach is more methodical. With limited capital and tougher markets, ex-Intel founders are focusing on design capabilities, infrastructure gaps, and scalable intellectual property rather than chasing unicorn valuations.

Intel itself remains India’s largest semiconductor employer with over 10,000 direct staff and as many contractors. The government’s Design Linked Incentive (DLI) scheme is reinforcing this momentum by covering up to 50 percent of R&D costs for chip design startups, enabling many Intel alumni to build globally relevant IP from India.

As industry leaders like Venkata Simhadri and Dr Gupta emphasize, India’s semiconductor future depends not just on fabs but also on a strong base of chip design firms and system-level companies to absorb those chips. The Intel Mafia is quietly addressing this gap, helping India move beyond assembly and outsourcing toward becoming a global semiconductor hub.