Start the most mass layoffs: Intel will be freed from its dependence on PC business-Intel, Intel, layoffs-IT information

IDF one week after the end of the General Assembly, PC giant Intel announced that its biggest job cuts.

On April 21, Intel announced that earnings remain profitable, will lay off 12,000 employees worldwide . The figure means that more than 10% employees worldwide will be out of the workforce.

Mobile Internet era, Intel chip dominance of the PC era gradually disappeared. And mass layoffs just this huge organizational transformation begins.

The most mass layoffs

Scale of the layoff of 12,000 people, will be Intel's largest-scale layoffs.

Intel China official told journalists that currently we do not provide information about specific countries or regions. We are still assessing the euro plan. But overall, we expected before 2017, through the integration of offices, voluntary and involuntary separations, project assessment and focus on improving the efficiency of a series of projects, in various forms, will cut up to 12,000 jobs in the world.

Foreign media reported that Intel will spend $ 750 million to staff redundancy. By 2017, Intel is expected to save $ 1.4 billion in operating costs.

Intel Chief Executive Officer Chi (Brian Krzanich) emphasized in an email to employees, "it's not easy to make decisions. "He said, in response to the changing market, to speed up the structural adjustment. Only a structural adjustment, to make Intel more wisdom, production companies adapt to world trends, long-term changes in the solid part.

Intel's revenue accounted for about 60% 's PC business slide, leading to important Intel layoffs cause.

Public data show that PC chip subordinate business contributions to Intel for a long time in the past 10 years more than half of revenue, but in the era of mobile Internet, PC market decline is inevitable.

Statistics from the market research firm Gartner, in 2016, worldwide PC shipments reached 64.8 million units in the first quarter, lower than over the same period last year to 9.6%. It also expects global PC sales in 2016 will be reduced to the lowest level since 2007.

At the beginning of April, Intel's head of global PC Shi Haode (Kirk · Skaugen) also shows the PC business to shrink away from the sides.

In fact, Intel had already started downsizing.

According to statistics from reporters, in 2009 and 2012 and 2014, Intel separately announced the layoffs of more than 5000 people planning. In the third quarter of 2006, Intel also announced layoffs of 10,500 people.

But it is worth noting is that Intel released in 2016 with a layoff earlier first-quarter earnings.

Earnings, Intel's revenue in the first quarter to reach 13.7 billion dollars, up 7%. Net profit grew 3% to 2.046 billion US dollars.

Just transition begins

Layoffs are just the Intel transition begins.

"We 40% 60% of the revenue and profit from outside the PC business, has made some progress in our transition. "Qi said in an analysts meeting," it's time to speed up the transition, pushed all the way over into the direction of the company as a whole. ”

The Intel China also told reporters, Intel will be freed from its dependence on PC business, from the PC business, turn to cloud computing and smart devices.

Behind all the Intel transition, the Overlord old PC chip, failed to seize the opportunity of mobile Internet, markets are in the hands of Qualcomm, mediatek chip manufacturer ARM camp captured one by one.

Intel's substantial bets on Tablet, could not compete with Smartphones.

According to press reports, in 2014 to purchase Intel Atom chip manufacturers, especially SMEs with a subsidy. But a lot of subsidies instead of Intel's mobility business huge losses that year. Just released first-quarter earnings report revealed that Intel Tablet chips shipped down 44% over the previous year.

But in the mobile Internet era, did not seize the opportunity of the former PC giant Intel is not alone. Prelude to layoffs become common to these companies. According to press reports, HP announced layoffs of 30,000 people in 2015, Microsoft also announced in 2015 7800 job cuts.

Data Center is now Intel is an important source of revenue. 2016 a quarter, data center business unit revenue increase of 9% in the first quarter, reaching 4 billion yuan, accounting for 29% of the total revenue.

And seeks to transform Intel, the good news is that Qualcomm mobile chip market are in the hands of its ramifications. Analysts said Intel may be 30 million to 40 million iPhone chip orders, the remaining orders are still owned by Qualcomm.

A analyst who declined to be named, told reporters, the global PC industry slip, the industrial structure from the PC, Tablet functions transferred to physical devices and cloud computing. In addition, even though you are doing cloud computing, Intel is the upstream part manufacturers, for data centers, servers, storage, and other services directly compete for less.

He also told reporters, cloud computing, and the market is big, but to see how Intel's growth strategy. Intel in the chip industry is the key manufacturers, mainstream brand based on its design. But Intel also faces domestic CPU comparison competition. In addition, he said, Intel also need rapid development in the field.

启动最大规模裁员：Intel将摆脱对PC业务的依赖 - Intel,英特尔,裁员 - IT资讯

IDF大会结束一周后，PC巨头英特尔便宣布了自己史上最大的裁员计划。

4月21日，财报依然盈利的英特尔宣布，将在全球裁员1.2万名员工。这个数字意味着超过10%的全球员工将离开工作岗位。

移动互联时代，让英特尔PC时代的芯片霸主地位逐渐没落。而万人裁员仅仅是这个庞大组织转型的开始。

最大规模裁员

1.2万人的裁员规模，将是英特尔史上最大规模裁员。

英特尔中国相关人士对记者表示，目前我们不提供具体国家或地区的有关信息。我们仍在评估欧洲区的计划。但总体来说，我们预计2017年中之前，通过办公地点整合、自愿和非自愿离职、项目重新评估以及更加专注于提高一系列项目的效率等多种形式，全球将削减最多至12000个工作岗位。

外媒消息称，英特尔将花7.5亿美元遣散员工。而到2017年，英特尔预期将省下14亿美元的运营成本。

英特尔首席执行官科再奇（Brian Krzanich）在给员工的邮件中强调，“这并不是轻易能够作出的决定。”他表示，为应对变化的市场，要加快结构调整。只有结构调整，才能使英特尔成为更具智慧、适应世界趋势的生产公司，成为长期变化中的稳固的一环。

占英特尔营收60%左右的PC业务下滑，是导致英特尔裁员的重要原因。

公开数据显示，PC芯片从属的业务集团在过去10年里长期贡献了英特尔一半以上的收入，但在移动互联时代，PC市场的衰落已无可避免。

市场调研公司Gartner的统计数据显示，2016年第一季度全球PC出货量达到6480万台，比去年同期降低9.6%。它同时预计2016年全球PC销量会减至2007年以来的最低水平。

而在4月初，英特尔全球PC业务负责人施浩德（Kirk·Skaugen）的离职也从侧面显示了PC业务的萎缩。

事实上，英特尔在此前已经陆续开始裁员。

据记者统计，在2009年、2012年和2014年，英特尔分别宣布了规模超过5000人的裁员规划。而在2006年第三季度，英特尔还宣布了1.05万人的裁员计划。

但值得注意的是，与裁员同期发布的英特尔2016年第一季度财报依然盈利。

财报显示，英特尔一季度营收规模为137亿美元，同期增长7%。净利润则增长3%达到20.46亿美元。

只是转型开始

裁员只是英特尔转型的开始。

“我们40%的营收和60%的利润来自PC以外的业务，我们的转型已取得了一定的进展。”科再奇在分析师会议中表示，“是时候加速这个转型，把整个公司往那个方向一路推过去了。”

上述英特尔中国相关人士也对记者表示，英特尔将摆脱对PC业务的依赖，从原来以PC业务为主，转向以云计算和智能物联设备为主。

在英特尔的转型背后，这个往昔的PC芯片霸主，没能抓住移动互联的机会，手中的市场被高通、联发科等ARM阵营的芯片厂商逐一攻占。

而英特尔大幅押注的平板电脑，也没能与智能手机相抗衡。

据记者了解，英特尔曾在2014年向采购Atom芯片的制造商，特别是中国的中小企业提供补贴。但大量的补贴反而导致英特尔移动业务当年出现高额亏损。而刚出炉的一季度财报则显示，英特尔平板芯片的出货量比上年同期下降了44%。

但在移动互联时代，没有抓住机会的昔日PC巨头并不只有英特尔。裁员成为这些公司转型的普遍前奏。据记者了解，惠普在2015年宣布了3万人的裁员计划，微软也在2015年宣布裁员7800人。

数据中心目前成为英特尔营收的一个重要来源。2016年一季度财报显示，数据中心事业部一季度营收上涨9%，达到40亿元，占整体营收的29%。

而对于力求转型的英特尔来说，一个好消息是，高通手中的移动芯片市场正被其蚕食。有分析师透露，英特尔可能获得3000万-4000万个iPhone的芯片订单，其余订单仍然归高通。

一位不愿具名的分析师对记者表示，目前全球PC产业都往下滑，产业结构在从PC、平板向物联设备和云计算功能转移。此外，虽然大家都在做云计算，但英特尔是上游部件厂商，从事数据中心、服务器、存储等业务，直接竞争的领域比较少。

他同时对记者表示，云计算和物联领域市场空间很大，但要看英特尔的发展策略如何。英特尔在芯片产业是关键厂商，主流品牌都基于其进行设计。但英特尔也面临着国产CPU比较激烈的竞争。此外，他还表示，英特尔在物联领域发展的速度还需要加快。