Intel will implement more than 100 staffing in the IoT division, as well as expectations to review its strategy in the future

It became clear that Intel began to organize personnel in IoT (Internet's Internet) department. According to the plan that the company submitted to the authorities, approximately 140 positions will be cut in three IoT-related sectors.

Intel to cut IoT jobs
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British electronics specialized media ·Electronics WeeklyAccording to the report, Intel has announced that it will submit a workforce reduction plan to California employment authorities, and will dismiss up to 137 of them.

The plan is to reduce the position of 97 people at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California and up to 40 positions at Leixlip's Intel Ireland near Dublin, Ireland. Intel sold 720 billion dollars (about 81.5 billion yen) in 2016, among which the proportion occupied by IoT was about 5%.

The strategy for Intel's IoT-related strategy has been gradually changing since the spring of 2017, and it was clear in June that it would terminate the compact module developed and sold as a device for IoT.

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These products were introduced sequentially from around 2014 as Intel's key strategy in the future strategy, but it has come to an end without acquiring the market share as intended. The IoT field is expected to grow in the future, but it is not able to demonstrate the presence sufficiently in products such as Arduino and Raspberry Pi that are popular as microcomputers and offensive from China and others, and the model line The end of the year is coming.

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On the other hand, development of credit card size computer "Intel Compute Card" is expected to continue.

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