Intel vs AMD: which job is safer?
Layoff risk for Engineering roles in India, scored this morning from confirmed layoffs, WARN filings, earnings, hiring and news signals.
Intel
INTC • Semiconductors
- 7-day move
- +2
- Employee reports
- 1 in 30d
- Safer than
- 21% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- 1 · 103 roles
Most recent confirmed cut: Jul 24, 2026, 103 roles.
Full Intel reportAMD
AMD • Semiconductors
- 7-day move
- +1
- Employee reports
- None
- Safer than
- 44% of 78
- Layoffs (1 yr)
- None on record
Most recent confirmed cut: Nov 13, 2024, 1,000 roles.
Full AMD reportIntel vs AMD, signal by signal
| Signal | Intel | AMD |
|---|---|---|
| Layoff risk score | 39 / 100 | 31 / 100 |
| Risk band | MODERATE | MODERATE |
| 7-day move | +2 | +1 |
| 30-day move | 0 | +2 |
| Confirmed layoffs (1 yr) | 1 | 0 |
| Disclosed roles cut (1 yr) | 103 | 0 |
| WARN notices (7 d) | 24 | 0 |
| Layoff headlines (7 d) | 0 | 0 |
| Employee sentiment | stable | nervous |
| Employee-reported layoffs (30 d) | 1 | 0 |
| Employee mood votes (30 d) | — | 3 · 33% worried |
Green marks the safer side of each row. Lower is better on every risk signal except open roles and revenue growth, where more is the healthier reading.
90-day risk trend, side by side
Should you switch from Intel to AMD?
AMD scores 31/100 (moderate risk) against Intel's 39/100 (moderate) for Engineering roles in India — a 8-point gap. What sits behind the gap: Intel has confirmed 103 roles across 1 announcement in the past year against none at AMD.
Direction matters as much as level. Over the last 30 days Intel's risk score held flat and AMD's rose 2 points. That is narrowing the gap, so the current verdict is the weaker of the two readings — check it again before you sign anything.
On confirmed events, Intel has 1 confirmed layoff totalling 103 disclosed roles on Jul 24. AMD has no confirmed layoff in the past year. Confirmed cuts are the heaviest input to the score and they decay on a half-life rather than expiring, so a large recent round keeps weighing on a company for months while an old one fades gradually.
In the last seven days: Intel added 2 points: a still-weighted cut of 103 roles on Jul 24 and 24 WARN notices filed with state labour departments this week. AMD added 1 point with no layoff, filing or headline behind it — the move came from the softer inputs the model also reads: news sentiment, share price and hiring activity.
Employee sentiment, blended from anonymous reports and the data signals, reads stable at Intel and nervous at AMD, though on only 1 employee report between them in the last 30 days. Sentiment moves earlier than confirmed events but is far noisier, so treat it as a leading indicator rather than a score.
One caveat worth stating plainly: this compares employer-level risk, not your risk. Any engineering role on a revenue-critical team at the riskier company can be safer than a cost-centre role at the safer one. Read the score as the weather, not the forecast for your specific seat.