Report of Termination of Employment ( FLE) is out after the company earlier reported a 13 % drop in profit . Intel shares also eroded by the negative sentiment .
" We expect job cuts of up to 5 % at the end of this year , " said Chris Kraeuter Intel spokesman told AFP .
" It's the usual thing we do on a regular basis to show the importance of our priorities , " he said .
Late last year , the company is headquartered in California 's had 107 600 employees . If you see 5 % of that means there will be about 5,380 employees laid off.
However Kraeuter do not want to specify the employees of the Intel division which will be affected by the layoff program , as well as branch offices are located in which Intel .
The job cuts also apply to those who retire and come out voluntarily .
Until the end of 2013 yesterday , Intel's profit of $ 9.6 billion with a turnover of USD 52.7 billion , compared with last year's position with a profit of USD 11 billion and USD 53.3 billion .
Technology companies Intel plans to downsize the number of workers around the world in 2014 . It is an effort to keep a business in the middle of Intel's sales of personal computers continues to decline .
Of the 107,000 employees around the world , Intel will cut 5,000 employees , equivalent to five per cent . The announcement was made after Intel posted a fourth -quarter report 2013.
" This is the part to align human resources to meet business needs , " said Intel spokesman , Chris Kraeuter , as quoted by Reuters .
Reduction programs offer employees including retirement , voluntary , and other options .
Intel still dominates the personal computer processor industry . However , Intel was slow to develop products in the industry mobile device processor . Now , the industry smart phone and tablet processors dominated by Qualcomm , Samsung , MediaTek and others .
Intel trying to catch up with its competitors in the mobile industry by making processors that require low power consumption . In addition , Intel will increase the investment in the data center industry .
Intel is not the only company affected by the decline in the personal computer industry . Hewlett - Packard is also downsizing to cut 34,000 workers by 2014 , or 11 percent of the total work force .
Meanwhile , Dell , trying to buy back all the shares from the stock market , in order to become a private company .
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