Apple has now confirmed the layoffs to the California government

A month after news broke that Apple would be cutting 200 jobs from Project Titan , the company has now confirmed the layoffs to the California government.

Apple disclosed the layoffs in a letter to the California Employment Development Department, as reported by The San Francisco Chronicle . Tom Neumayr, Apple’s Senior Director of App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV PR, confirmed to the Chronicle that the letter referred to the same layoffs that were reported last month.

The letter also detailed the specific areas in which the layoffs will be occurring: 38 engineering program managers, 33 hardware engineers, 31 product design engineers, and 22 software engineers. According to the filing, the layoffs are expected to occur on April 16.

While the earlier report suggested that some employees would be reassigned to other divisions within Apple, the use of the term “layoff” suggests that this is not going to be the case for the majority of the 190 employees noted in the letter, although it’s entirely possible that the matter is simply one of HR semantics — employees could be laid off and then “re-hired” into other divisions, rather than simply being transferred internally.

With Apple’s culture of secrecy, it’s not entirely clear what this means for Project Titan. The last time Apple cut a significant number of jobs from its autonomous car project was back in 2016, leading most to believe it had abandoned its ambitions to create an actual self-driving car , and would be choosing to focus on the autonomous software systems instead.

In the intervening years since, however, Apple clearly refocused its efforts again, with several new hires last year suggesting that an actual Apple Car was back on the table . This latest round of layoffs has been described as a simple restructuring rather […]

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