Seattle: Microsoft Corp. will close its research and development operation in Silicon Valley as part of 2,100 job cuts announced on Thursday as it moves toward the goal of its new CEO cut 18,000 employees, or about 14 percent of its workforce . 

News of the end of Microsoft Research lab on the campus of the company in Mountain View, California, was published first in Twitter by employees. The company later confirmed the move and said it would mean the loss of 50 jobs. 

A spokesman said Microsoft Research, which has more than 1,000 scientists and engineers from around the world working on new product ideas, consolidate its work in the United States Microsoft main campus in Redmond, Washington, and offices New York and Boston. 

After the cuts, Microsoft said it will still have 2,500 employees at its campus in Mountain View, not far from its rival Google Inc. 

Microsoft is cutting 160 jobs in California on Thursday, and another 747 in the Seattle area, a spokesman said, as part of a total of 2,100 redundancies worldwide. 

This is the second wave of cuts after he fired 13,000 in July, which marked the beginning of the plan Satya Nadella CEO to lay off 18,000 people in general. That means 2,900 more layoffs coming in the next nine months or so. 

Scraps Thursday were distributed in different countries and equipment, the spokesman said. The latest wave of cuts mainly affected the business of mobile phones Nokia, which Microsoft bought earlier this year.