Intel plans to cut 300 jobs at assembly plant in Malaysia before the end of the year

"Sohu It News" November 12 foreign media reported that Intel company announced plans to cut the end of the year about two of the Malaysian assembly plant about 300 employees. Indeed, Intel did not disclose the number of layoffs, as reported by local media in Malaysia. Intel's layoffs are aimed at two factories in Penang and Kulim in northern Malaysia. Penang, Malaysia, has a long history of Intel plants, built in 1972, has become one of Intel's largest technology development centers in the world, but also for the birth of the Haswell processor contributed to the technical force. In addition, the factory in Kulim was built in 1995, the main production of computer motherboards. A few months ago, Intel had announced that it would shut down a factory in Massachusetts and lay off 700 people, and Intel is now increasingly reliant on larger, new-production plants in the US Arizona, State, Oregon State and Ireland, Israel and China.