Intel Corporation California Layoffs 2026: What Employees Should Know

What the filing says

These are the details as Intel Corporationreported them to the state. The EDD publishes every notice, and these figures come from the state's report as retrieved on Aug 13, 2026. All 27 are listed below; the table scrolls.

How much notice the law requires

California's WARN Act requires 60 days of advance written notice before a covered mass layoff, and its only statutory exception is a physical calamity or an act of war — far narrower than federal law's three. Who is covered and how the thresholds are counted is in our California WARN Act guide.

Intel severance: what to check before you sign

A severance offer is not the notice pay the WARN Act describes. Severance you were already promised — in a contract, a handbook, or a union agreement — cannot be used to satisfy that obligation, though Labor Code section 1402 does let an employer reduce a back-pay award by voluntary payments it was never required to make. A release may also give up more than you expect. Justin reviews severance agreements before workers sign. What to check before you decide is in our full guide to the California WARN Act.

Two things worth doing this week either way. File for unemployment now — WARN money does not reduce it, and the filings here run through Aug 15, 2026, so you do not have to wait for your last day. And keep every document, including the notice itself and anything showing when it arrived.

What your notice was required to include

Timing is only half of what Labor Code section 1401 asks for. The notice itself has to contain specific things, and California added most of this list for notices issued on or after January 1, 2026. 4 of the 27 notices here fall after that date; the earlier ones were not subject to the new content rules. If you kept your copy, read it against the full six-item checklist in our WARN Act guide — everything federal law requires, whether transition help is being coordinated, working contact details for your workforce board and for the employer itself, and CalFresh information.

Source: Labor Code section 1401, as amended by SB 617, effective January 1, 2026. A notice missing something from that list is not automatically a violation with a remedy attached — whether a gap matters depends on the employer, the action, and what else happened.

Questions people are asking

Where a layoff can raise a legal question

A layoff is lawful on its own, and nothing below is a statement about Intel. These are the places California law can still come into play, depending on the facts of your own situation.

• The severance you were asked to signA release can give up claims you did not know you had, and the terms are sometimes negotiable.
• How you were selectedA reduction in force still cannot be used to cut someone for a protected reason such as age, disability, pregnancy, or a complaint they made.
• Your final paycheckCalifornia sets when final wages are due at termination, and unpaid time or accrued vacation can carry penalties on top of the wages.
• The length of the notice periodWhere a notice period turns out to fall short of what the law required, the question usually belongs to everyone in the same position rather than to one person.

General information about California law, not legal advice, and reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.

What has been reported

Press coverage of this layoff, summarized and attributed. This is reporting rather than the filing itself, and we did not independently verify it.

Intel's filing covers four Santa Clara facilities and is part of a wider reshaping of the company's data center and AI operations. Intel has described the cuts as aligning its Data Center Group around the roles and skills it wants for the long term.

The Santa Clara notice arrived alongside other Bay Area reductions reported in the same week, and follows substantially larger Intel reductions in California during 2025.

Sources: Hoodline (opens in a new tab) · KRON4 (opens in a new tab)

Recent coverage

Coverage of Intel matched by our news monitor. These are the publishers' own reports, not the filing, and we have not independently verified them.

• Factory Fallout: Manufacturing layoffs at Intel, BASF, and more (opens in a new tab) — Plant Services, Aug 11, 2026
• Intel Cuts 103 Jobs in Its Fastest Growing Data Center and AI Division (opens in a new tab) — Startup Fortune, Aug 4, 2026
• Uber, Intel layoffs to affect nearly 150 Bay Area employees (opens in a new tab) — KRON4, Jul 28, 2026
• More than 200 Bay Area tech jobs cut at Intel, Uber and Patreon (opens in a new tab) — San Francisco Chronicle, Jul 28, 2026
• Intel and Uber announce Bay Area job cuts (opens in a new tab) — The Mercury News, Jul 28, 2026

What the numbers show

• The filings name 2 locations: Folsom and Santa Clara.
• They cover 11 separate addresses rather than a single site, so co-workers at different locations may have received different dates.
• The jobs do not all end on the same day. The filings list 4 separate last days of work, running from July 11, 2025 to August 15, 2026.
• At least one notice here is dated 45 days after the last day of work it reports. Notices are sometimes filed or amended after the fact, so this describes the paperwork rather than when anyone was told.
• Within Santa Clara County, this accounts for 9% of all workers covered by WARN notices on file, across 73 employers.
• By headcount it is the 4th-largest of the 599 employer layoffs tracked here.
• The EDD records the employer's sector as Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services.
• The 1,423 workers leaving Intel Corporation re-enter a job market where Santa Clara County unemployment stood at 4% in June 2026, below the 5.2% statewide rate (Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted).
• The filings came in waves: 14 notices in July 2025 covering 1,080 jobs, then 4 notices in August 2025 covering 181 jobs, then 5 notices in December 2025 covering 59 jobs, then 4 notices in July 2026 covering 103 jobs.

These are counts and comparisons drawn from the published filings, not findings about Intel.

Free job-search help near the affected sites

America's Job Center of California is the state's no-cost network for laid-off workers: help filing and keeping unemployment benefits, federally funded retraining, and résumé and interview coaching. Your WARN notice may name one; these are the closest to the sites in these filings.

• North San Jose America`s Job Center of California (opens in a new tab)

  1901 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA 95112 · 408-216-6200

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 2.8 miles from the Santa Clara site

• Folsom Cordova Job Center (opens in a new tab)

  10826 Gadsten Way, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670 · 916-294-9107

  Affiliate center (partial services) · about 7.1 miles from the Folsom site

Locations and hours change — confirm before visiting, or find another center with the EDD's center locator (opens in a new tab). Directory: U.S. Department of Labor, Jul 31, 2026; distances are straight-line from the address in the filing.

Other layoffs filed in Santa Clara County around the same time

73 employers have WARN notices on file in Santa Clara County, covering 11,472 workers. These filed within about a quarter of this one.

• Republic National Distributing Company1,756 workers
• Oracle America, Inc.1,250 workers
• Cisco Systems, Inc.692 workers
• Walmart587 workers
• Jabil, Inc.435 workers
• Blue Shield of California433 workers

Listed because they appear in the same county in the same public data. No connection between these employers is implied.

California wage claims filed against Intel

California employers face claims under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), which lets an employee sue for civil penalties over Labor Code violations on behalf of the state. The state publishes every filing. 2 PAGA cases naming this employer are on that record, including the settlements below.

These are outcomes in other people’s cases, obtained by other lawyers, taken from the state’s public filing record. They are not results of this firm, and past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. What any individual recovers depends on their own hours, pay records, and dates.

• Proposed settlement · 2026

  $5,000,000

  Non-exempt hourly employees of Intel Corporation in California and elsewhere in the United States alleged that Intel failed to include the value of vested restricted stock units (RSUs) in their regular rates of pay, resulting in underpayment of overtime and other wages. The parties reached a proposed settlement agreement to resolve these claims on a class, collective, and PAGA-wide basis. The settlement provides for a total gross fund of $5,000,000 to cover payments to class members, collective members, PAGA members, attorneys' fees, costs, and other expenses. Intel denies any wrongdoing and the settlement is not an admission of liability.

  Covered all current and former non-exempt, hourly employees employed by Defendant in California at any time during the California Relevant Period, and who during such time had RSUs issued by Intel vest. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  To the state (LWDA)

  $65,000

  Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk · 610023/2026 · Intel denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

• Proposed settlement · 2018

  $5,000,000

  Current and former non-exempt Intel employees in California were not paid for all hours worked, including minimum wage and overtime, and were not provided meal and rest breaks, reimbursed for business expenses, or given accurate pay stubs. The filing alleges that Intel did not maintain proper employment records, engaged in unfair competition, and owes civil penalties under the California Private Attorneys General Act. Intel denies all allegations, and the parties have agreed to settle for $5,000,000. The court has granted preliminary approval of the settlement.

  Covered all current and former non-exempt Intel employees in California at any time from November 10, 2012 through April 19, 2018. The settlement resolved class claims as well as PAGA penalties.

  Attorneys' fees

  $1,666,650

  To the state (LWDA)

  $50,000

  Superior Court of California for the County of Santa Clara · 16CV302615 · Intel denied liability; a settlement is not an admission.

A PAGA case is not a class action, and there is nothing to opt out of. A PAGA settlement resolves civil penalties owed to the state — most of which the state keeps — and it does not necessarily resolve your own unpaid wages, missed break premiums, or final-paycheck penalties. If you worked here and were not paid correctly, that is a separate question worth asking about. How California wage claims work.

Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services layoffs in California

Employers the EDD lists in the same sector with WARN notices on file statewide.

• Genentech, Inc.449 workers
• ServiceNow, Inc.404 workers
• PD Systems81 workers
• Magic Leap, Inc.76 workers
• Conduent51 workers
• Veritone, Inc.41 workers

Grouped by the industry the EDD recorded on the filings. No connection between these employers is implied.