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Intel cuts jobs in its fastest-growing division two days before Q2 earnings
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Fusion42 · 22 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
Intel is cutting jobs in its Data Center and AI Group, the company's fastest-growing division posting 22% year-on-year revenue growth, two days before Q2 earnings. CEO Lip-Bu Tan is extending restructuring pain across all units to strip legacy cost structure, signalling a shift from Intel's previous sprawling ambitions to a narrower, margin-focused strategy centred on server CPUs, inference, packaging, and foundry.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Semiconductors and AI Infrastructure.
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If you're selling into Intel's data centre or foundry roadmap, those teams are being cut right now. Tan is choosing inference and custom silicon over the old ambition—call your Intel contacts this week and confirm who's still there and what's actually being built.
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