Intel said Thursday that the company will lay off about 15 percent of its workforce, layoffs that were forced upon it by unused manufacturing capacity and charges associated with the launch of its AI PCs. Intel positioned it as part of the “next phase of its multiyear transformation strategy,” but the cuts are fairly severe. Intel intends to reduce R&D and marketing, and general spending to $20 billion in 2024, $17.5 billion in 2025, and even lower in 2026. Intel will cut roughly 15,000 of its 131,000-employee headcount, most by the end of the year. “Our Q2 financial performance was disappoint…