According to foreign media reports, semiconductor giant Intel Corporation is planning to reorganize its business units, and therefore lay off its key data center departments. According to SemiAccurate and AnandTech and the plan, 25% to 33% of Intel’s data center division may be cut.

However, Intel will not comment on the accuracy of the report, but Intel will report its fourth quarter financial results recently, indirectly revealing more plans in this regard.

In recent months, Intel has made a number of acquisitions aimed at enhancing the technological capabilities of its data centers. These include the recent $ 2 billion acquisition of Israeli artificial intelligence startup Habana Labs, which makes specialized graphics processing units for AI workloads.

In recent weeks, Intel leadership has provided more information on the future direction of its data center division. At the end of last year, Navin Shenoy, the company’s data center leader, was appointed executive vice president and general manager of the Data Platform Group, responsible for servers, storage, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and FPGA.

A few weeks ago, Intel CEO Bob Swan publicly stated that Intel needs to “destroy its own minds” in order to always dominate its traditional CPU market and focus on GPUs and other types of AI hardware for significant reorganization of IoT and other data-intensive workloads.

But layoffs have not yet been confirmed, and one analyst doubted that he did not think Intel would lay off as reported. Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy said: “I don’t expect to lay off staff, but it may reach balance again. Companies like Intel are still looking for more software talent in a rapidly changing market, but may fire some hardware talent.”

Intel’s last round of major layoffs occurred in 2016, when about 12,000 layoffs were made, accounting for 11% of the total number of employees. In addition, the company reportedly fired hundreds of employees at a factory in Costa Rica last April.