Intel expected to cut thousands of jobs
 

Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is expected to announce a massive layoff as soon as Tuesday that could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs......

Intel has about 100,000 employees worldwide, so the cut could be as high as 10 percent of the company's staff.

The job cut is likely to weigh particularly heavily on marketing staff. Intel studies comparing its own staffing levels to competitors' concluded that the ratio of marketing personnel to salespeople was too large, the sources said.

Marketing people didn't design Core 2, engineers did