Intel cuts out marketing

IT LOOKS LIKE Intel is finally narrowing down the 10,500 job cuts we first told you about in May. There were some hints at where the cuts were coming from, but the specifics were not known.

We hear that there was a bloodbath on Tuesday with around 40 per cent of US marketing personnel being told they were no longer needed. Oregon R&D and related people were also hit, but the numbers are unclear. This leaves ultra-mobile and Intel capital as unknowns, but they were probably cut at the same time.

In any case, this is not a new round of lay-offs, just the older promised ones taking effect.

Intel wouldn't comment much, other to point out that the cut and thrust was aimed primarily at marketing types, rather than sales. Or, in what is left of marketingspeak: "marketing will be impacted by the workforce reductions in Q4."