Also does it happen across the board or just in teams of falling businesses? In other words if the server business is doing good and IoT is new, I'd assume either people from other departments get redeployed to these. And no cuts in dcg and IoT? Or am I mistaken.
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Reorgs/restructurings happen all the time. Too often, in fact.
Inthepast, Intel would only redeploy if there were other business groups hiring people with transferable skills--the mindset was that if you got redeployed, there has to be some group out there willing to hire you, otherwise Intel would've just RIF'ed you. In the BK era, however, all bets are off.
True RIFs ("reductions in force") used to be rare, but this ISP seems to be a hint of what's to come, so again, who knows?
The pc industry is dying. Get over it
They have done all of the above over the years but in varying degrees. In past years they would do redeployment when they decided to cut a business group. Back then they still valued the employees and allowed them to try and find other jobs within the company. I would say over the past 7 years or so is when the VSP's started coming into play and the ISP's more recently. Before BK things seemed a bit more stable. Now I would say all bets are off. Some very good people were let go during this last round and overall it really made no sense other than most of the ones affected were older (me being one of them). They let people go in business groups that are very understaffed already without a thought to how this would affect the overall teams, moral or actual business function of the company. And yes I have read all the posts about how the older "dead weight" should be let go but I don't know what groups those people work in. My old group had nothing but hard working people who put in many hours to create the highest quality output that we could and everyone took pride in their work. Maybe there are some teams that have people skating by but that's not true from my personal experience.
If we knew the answer we wouldn't be on this site :) Since BK came to town all bets are off. He has no clue what the hell he is doing. He is like Donald.
I would say 80% probability the OP is Indian.
If you are Indian, you have nothing to worry about.
it's obvious the OP doesn't work at Intel or he'd know the answer to that question. LOL They do ALL 3 a LOT(and more if you include ISP's and VSPs) .So much so your head will spin. Seriously, it's hard because you're always starting new relationships and having to figure out who to go to because of a reorg/VSP/ISP/redeployment. If you want stability high tech isn't the place.
@163227 if the OP studied VLSI design in school, he can't get into LinkedIn Facebook yahoo twitter. He is probably stuck with Intels and Qualcomms of the world.
Stay away from goofy semiconductor jobs.