Portland Intel now expected to lay off over 2,000 Oregon employees

[CentralMass]

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2025/07/intel-bombshell-chipmaker-will-lay-off-2400-oregon-workers.html

"PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Intel layoffs are expected to be much greater than initially expected.
According to a WARN notice released on Friday, the semiconductor manufacturing corporation is going to lay off 2,392 employees at these four Intel locations in the Portland area on Tuesday, July 15.
3585 SW 198th Ave., Aloha, OR 97078
2501 NE Century Blvd, Hillsboro, OR 97124
5200 NE Elam Young Pkwy., Hillsboro, OR 97124
2111 NE 25th Ave., Hillsboro, OR 97124

Originally, the layoffs were only expected to impact 529 people."

[Permanut]

1. Golly, I'm sure glad to see all of the technical and manufacturing jobs

being created by those magical tariffs.

[CentralMass]

3. The Chips Bill funding hasn't worked out so well either.

[madville]

6. AI is gonna replace most of those jobs

In the next few years anyway. We’ll have AI designing, programming and manufacturing its own components, humans will be taken out of the equation.

[nilram]

2. And I wonder how many H1Bs they're applying for right now.

[CentralMass]

4. Lastest Update(6/4/25):In the first two quarters of fiscal year 2025, Intel filed 2039LCAs forH-1B visas,

519 labor petitions for green cards, and 2293 requests for prevailing wage determination.

[nilram]

5. Interesting. Thank you.

Any similarities between those numbers and the layoff numbers is purely coincidental, I'm sure.

[CentralMass]

7. I was thinking the same, however they do seem to be oddly similar.