We are a group of engineers who build Intel’s products every single day. We are writing from the inside - not as outside pundits hungry for a headline. What follows is blunt, because the situation demands nothing less.
On 23 April 2025, Bloomberg broke the news that you intend to axe more than 20 percent of the company - about 21,000 human beings - citing “someone familiar with the matter.” Reuters, TechCrunch, and half the tech press piled on within minutes. That’s how we - the people whose jobs you are about to erase - found out.
Our phones lit up with notifications while we were debugging wafer-sort failures and reviewing RTL. We learned our fate from a leak, not from our leadership.
You preach a gospel of “radical openness,” yet you hid behind an anonymous PR drip-feed to Wall Street. That is not openness. It’s cowardice wrapped in spin. A man who believes in straight talk faces his employees first, looks them in the eye, and says the hard words himself. You chose the back door and let a wire service drop the bo-b for you.
Be a man. Instead of asking your PR team to leak the news to soften the blow, speak to us directly. Speak to the employees. Don’t lecture us about Intel moving from secrecy to directness while acting like a coward and sugarcoating reality through leaks.