Intel plans to lay off 385 workers at its sites in Arizona and another 319 in its California offices, in addition to the 1,300 Oregon layoffs the chipmaker announced Tuesday.

The layoffs in Oregon represent a little over five percent of Intel's workforce in the state, which totaled [PDF] 23,000 employees at the start of the year. However, this figure may not encompass the full scope of staff reductions hitting the R&D hub – including staff buyouts and early retirements, the brain drain could be even more substantial.

Intel disclosed on Tuesday that mass layoffs will impact 2,000 jobs at locations in Oregon, Arizona and California.

Layoffs that Intel announced last summer got underway in earnest this week as the company works to cut 15,000 jobs across its business, the biggest downsizing in its five-decade history.

Intel has initiated layoffs affecting over 2,000 jobs in multiple US states as part of cost-cutting measures announced in August. Significant impacts

Intel's layoffs are hitting the Grand Canyon State. A notice for 385 layoffs at the corporation's Chandler facility was posted on Wednesday, as the company announced this summer that 15,000 workers would be laid off around the world.