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Intel Corp. (INTC)
Chip maker, one pattern. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-27, filed 2026-01-23. Ranked 23 of the 24 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states 85,100 people and nothing by segment or country, so one semiconductor pattern carries the workforce (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 17% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 41% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
85,100 employees as of 2025-12-27 (stated). The filing gives no count by country; revenue by geography puts the United States at 39%.
The filing: “We invest in our highly skilled workforce, which was comprised of 85,100 people as of December 27, 2025, by creating practices, programs and benefits that support the rapidly changing world of work and our employees' needs.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes a semiconductor company designing and manufacturing processors and running foundry services, one industry, with no count by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 85,100 people, down from 108,900 a year earlier; a 2025 company-wide transformation that reduced management layers; employees generally expected on site at least four days a week.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Amphenol Corporation (APH, 170,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
- Flex Ltd. (FLEX, 149,686 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- Jabil Inc. (JBL, 135,000 employees)17% now, 46% by 2028
- TE Connectivity plc (TEL, 93,000 employees)17% now, 44% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
92 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 92 sentences: generative AI workloads driving compute demand, AI capabilities driving PC refreshes, and AI across the industry momentum and risks it describes.
- “Words such as "accelerate", "achieve", "aim", "ambitions", "anticipate", "believe", "committed", "continue", "could", "designed", "estimate", "expect", "forecast", "future", "goals", "grow", "guidance", "intend", "likely", "may", "might", "milestones", "next generation", "objective", "on track", "opportunity", "outlook", "pending", "plan", "position", "possible", "potential", "predict", "progre...”
- “Such statements involve many risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied, including those associated with: ▪ the high level of competition and rapid technological change in our industry; ▪ the significant, long-term and inherently risky investments we are making in R&D and manufacturing facilities that may not realize a favora...”
- “In 2025 and recent years, the semiconductor industry has experienced momentum driven by the following: ▪ significantly increased compute demand, particularly for GPU systems, driven by generative AI workloads; ▪ an expansion in the types of AI workloads as AI technologies are adopted across industries and applications; ▪ a PC market driven by user refreshes that resulted from expanding AI capab...”
- “We expect these trends to continue in 2026 and future years, with continuing rapid adoption of AI technologies across an increasing number of industries and applications driving demand across a full spectrum of AI workloads, including generative AI, AI inference, agentic AI and physical AI, from traditional and AI data centers to network and enterprise environments and client and edge.”
- “We believe AI represents a generational shift in computing requiring a range of compute silicon, including GPUs, ASICs, CPUs and xPUs.”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-27 | 85,100 | 2026-01-23 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-28 | 108,900 | 2025-01-31 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-30 | 124,800 | 2024-01-26 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 131,900 | 2023-01-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-25 | 121,100 | 2022-01-27 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-26 | 110,600 | 2021-01-22 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-28 | 110,800 | 2020-01-24 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-29 | 107,400 | 2019-02-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-30 | 102,700 | 2018-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 106,000 | 2017-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-26 | 107,300 | 2016-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-27 | 106,700 | 2015-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-28 | 107,600 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-29 | 105,000 | 2013-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 100,100 | 2012-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-25 | 82,500 | 2011-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-26 | 79,800 | 2010-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-27 | 83,900 | 2009-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-29 | 86,300 | 2008-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-30 | 94,100 | 2007-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 99,900 | 2006-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-25 | 85,000 | 2005-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-27 | 79,700 | 2004-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-28 | 78,700 | 2003-03-11 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-29 | 83,400 | 2002-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-30 | 86,100 | 2001-03-13 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-25 | 70,200 | 2000-03-23 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-26 | 64,500 | 1999-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-27 | 63,700 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-28 | 48,500 | 1997-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-30 | 41,600 | 1996-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 32,600 | 1995-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-25 | 29,500 | 1994-03-25 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by segment or by country; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000050863-26-000011, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Intel Corp.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 44% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Intel Corp.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Intel Corp. employ?
- 85,100 as of December 27, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 27, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Intel Corp.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 49% desk work, 14% people work and 37% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Intel Corp.'s annual report say about AI?
- 92 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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