Jakarta - Intel closed the assembly facility and test products located in Costa Rica . A total of 1,500 Intel employees in the country certainly been laid off .
The facility is large enough to actually contribute to the export of Costa Rica . This closure may be linked to sluggish demand in the PC industry as the popularity of smartphones and tablet PCs ."The facility was closed and consolidated with our other operations around the world , " said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy is quoted by Reuters onThursday ( 04/10/2014 ) . Intel does have similar facilities in China , Malaysia and Vietnam .
Despite layoffs in large enough quantities , Intel will still employ about 1000 workers of technical , financial and human resources in Costa Rica . And they are still going to open at least 200 more jobs this year .In January, Intel is planning to decrease the number of employees by 5 % in stages . Today, Intel employs a total of about 107 thousand employees worldwide .
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