Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warned in April that the quest for efficiency would be accompanied by painful job losses. The semiconductor company had previously disclosed its intentions to cut 20% of its global workforce, which would equate to 21,000 workers worldwide.

A number of high-profile technology companies have announced job cuts this summer as the industry faces rapid change.

Intel, the Bay Area tech giant whose failure to innovate alongside other major chipmakers has turned it into a laggard of the artificial intelligence era, is more than doubling its planned layoffs in California.