Intel to Cut 103 Bay Area Jobs in August Restructuring

Intel plans to eliminate 103 jobs at four Santa Clara offices effective August 15, 2026, as part of a restructuring effort.

Intel Announces Bay Area Layoffs

Intel plans to eliminate 103 jobs at four Santa Clara offices, according to notices filed with California officials. The permanent cuts are scheduled to take effect on August 15, 2026. The reductions extend a series of layoffs at the Silicon Valley chipmaker.

Where the Cuts Fall

The largest reduction affects 67 employees at Intel's SC-12 building on Juliette Lane. The company will also cut 24 jobs at its Robert Noyce Building headquarters, 10 at another Juliette Lane office, and two at a Laurelwood Road location.

Restructuring Context

Intel recently told employees that it was restructuring its data center group as part of an effort to become a more focused and efficient company. The layoffs follow years of workforce reductions at Intel, including hundreds of jobs eliminated in Northern California in 2024 and 2025.

The cuts come as Intel reports improving sales. The company said last week that second-quarter revenue rose 25% from a year earlier to $16.1 billion, while revenue from its data center and AI business climbed 59% to $6.3 billion.

Broader Bay Area Tech Layoffs

The reductions are part of a wider trend of workforce cuts across Bay Area technology companies, which are reorganizing around costs, artificial intelligence, and shifting business priorities.

Uber plans to eliminate 41 jobs in San Francisco effective September 21, according to three state filings. The cuts include 27 employees assigned to two offices on Third Street and 14 remote workers associated with Uber's San Francisco operations. The filings follow Uber's announcement that it was cutting about 10% of its global customer support team. Megha Yethadka, Uber's vice president of global community operations, wrote in a memo to the team that AI presents a massive opportunity to accelerate output, improve quality, and scale customer solutions at pace. Yethadka added that the company has made some strides but needs an effective organization to layer AI on, and that it cannot scale frontier technology on top of fragmented processes.

Patreon is laying off 93 employees, or about 20% of its workforce, as it reduces costs and reorganizes its operations. Chief Executive Officer Jack Conte said Patreon would flatten its management structure and concentrate resources on its top priorities. Although Conte said AI has changed how technology companies operate, he said Patreon was not eliminating the positions because of it. Conte wrote that the company is not making the changes because it believes AI replaces humans, and that the more it has learned to use these new tools, the clearer it has become that they are not substitutes for the creativity, judgment, detail orientation, or craftsmanship that its teammates have, nor do they replace the desire for human connection. The cuts are Patreon's largest since it laid off 80 employees, or about 17% of its workforce, in 2022.

Additional Intel Layoffs Reported

A later report states that Intel will eliminate 52 manufacturing roles in Santa Clara after filing a California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification on September 18. September 30 will be the last day of work for the affected employees. The impacted sites include Intel's primary corporate headquarters at the Robert Noyce Building, located at 2200 Mission College Boulevard, where 22 employees will be laid off. Additional reductions are distributed across three nearby Santa Clara offices, including 24 staff members at the SC-12 location on 3600 Juliette Lane.