From three sources I heard about a possible general raise in Folsom. Nobody wants to work there, they can't attract good talent with those wages. Anyone can confirm.
I don't think this would happen though...
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Actually 6500 blue badges and number will go lower after Hynix people are gone.
Graphics, IT (notice the 916 area code in the Intel teleconferencing service), pre and post silicon testing is done at Folsom (to name a few groups). Highly doubt Folsom with its 7,000 employees will shutdown.
Intel is over very soon, too much politics and nothing new, maybe will be bought by an Israel company, but AMD and NVDA will prosper.
Chipsets are disappearing for the most part. SoCs rule
Will the GPU douche^Whangers on survive?
Folsom was the home of Chipsets. Has that changed since I retired a few years back?
No talent will move to Folsom. They may consider Oregon first.
Folsom is dead.
The Santa Clara Mission College and original Bowers sites are even a bigger joke when you compare the aging decrepit concrete campus to NVIDIA's new gleaming glass and metal Endeavor and Voyager HQs less than a mile down San Tomas Expressway. Intel's real HQs are Israel, India, and Oregon.
I agree that Santa Clara should also go, move Intel headquarters out of Kalifornia and their anti business high tax environment. Follow the lead of other progressive companies that found post covid location is irrelevant.
If PG shutters Folsom, he shouldn't also shutter Santa Clara? What do they produce there other than a joke of a museum/gift shop, bean counter financial reports, executive rehearsals on "foils" created by Bain or McKinsey, and political backroom battles?
What's the headcount at FM?
Seems a prime campus to close.
Hudson MA too.
PG are you listening?
So a company that is notorious for offshoring and exploiting the H1b process is going to voluntarily spend more money to recruit people into the most business-unfriendly state in the USA?
The Folsom campus needs to go as a cost cutting mechanism, general employees can relocate or better yet leave Intel. The Folsom employees have exhibited a greater then thou mentality for years and negatively impacted the workforce at other major sites.
After NSG sell off, why do they need FM campus?
There's no FAB in Folsum.