Intel, one of Oregon’s largest for-profit employers, is laying off nearly 2,400 workers in the state starting Monday, the company said in a layoff notice filed with the state on Friday.

The cuts at four Washington County campuses affect people in dozens of roles, with high-tech manufacturing technicians, data scientists, software engineers and product developers all losing their jobs.

More than 300 module development engineers — the people charged with developing next-generation microchips that once made Intel a cutting edge chip company — are being laid off, as are more than 300 people involved in maintaining the company’s chip manufacturing equipment.

The company had disclosed a much smaller layoff, of about 500 people, in a filing with the state on Tuesday, only to revise the number on Friday to 2,392.

At the time of the Tuesday disclosure, a spokesperson told OPB that the cuts were part of Intel’s efforts to become a more efficient company.

“We are making these decisions based on careful consideration of what’s needed to position our business for the future,” the spokesperson said in an emailed statement, “and we will treat people with care and respect as we complete this important work.”

Although Intel is headquartered in California, its sprawling Hillsboro campus is its research and development hub. The company started the year with around 20,000 workers in the state, having laid off 1,300 people in October.

The layoffs disclosed Friday come a day after one of Intel’s most successful competitors, Nvidia, became the first publicly traded microchip company to see its market value top $4 trillion.

Nvidia’s profits and share prices have soared as it established itself as a leading maker of chips for artificial intelligence, while Intel — founded in 1968 by one of the inventors of the microchip — has lost ground.

Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, told employees this week in a globally broadcast speech that “we are not in the top 10 semiconductor companies.”

About two dozen of the Oregon job cuts disclosed Friday are to positions directly related to AI.

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