New plant will have more than 244,000 square meters.
Ireland's An Bord Pleanála has given Intel the necessary permission for a new chip plant in County Kildare, just outside Ireland's capital city of Dublin. The Leixlip, Kildare campus is just one location where Intel plans to produce its next gen 14nm microprocessors.
Intel first announced plans to start a new $500 million construction project at its Leixlip technology campus in January of 2011. The plan was to upgrade Intel's Fab 14 facility in Leixlip. At the time, the project promised to create 850 construction jobs as well as 200 high level jobs on the Leixlip campus when all was said and done. SiliconRepublic reports that, last week, An Bord Pleanála granted Intel the planning permission to go ahead with the redevelopment. However, the estimates of how many jobs this new facility will create have risen considerably, as has the cost of the investment from Intel.
According to SiliconRepublic, the $4 billion plant will require a total of 3,500 construction workers over a period of two years and 800 permanent workers once completed. The new facility will include a new semiconductor wafer fabrication facility measuring 244,000 square meters (this will be housed inside the existing manufacturing complex), a three-storey main fabrication facility with a floor area of 101,000 sq metres, and several other facility support buildings for waste and chemical storage, water treatment, and more.
Because f*ck other countries economies...
Wrong! It's time to stop outsource to countries where labour is at slave-wage levels (China, Mexico, India, etc.), but "outsourcing" to Europe is a very good thing overall. It's a very precisely understood situation in macroeconomics. Things start getting really bad (for us, the West) when we have to start competing for jobs that we wouldn't do for less than, say, $15/hr with people in (example) China where same job pays $2/hr.
BTW nice that you edited your original comment haha - now mine doesn't quite make sense...but it did before you edited yours.
Maybe the Irish has more and better engineers than we do...
Minus the drinking of course.
Ok Ill give that to ya 2/10
Texas is unwilling to give Intel any sort of tax break at all. Intel actually purchased a HUGE chunk of real estate in Texas and was going to build the research and development facilities there until Texas said the company couldn't have any tax breaks at all.
Then we built Ronler Acres in Oregon and the rest is history. Texas screwed themselves out of nearly a billion dollars in tax revenue annually.
A company of that size deserves no more tax breaks then they actually get.
Im not sure how somehow a for profit company expects tax payers to give insentives
That's a really smart stance. Better to have nothing at all than to let a company pay 900 million instead of a billion. Brilliant.
Much of America's economic problems are tied to Europe's economic problems and aside from stuff like this, there's absolutely nothing we can do about it. Jobs in Europe are good for us, too. Besides, I don't know how closely you follow this, but Ireland is one of the worst-hit European nations (~15% unemployment)—much worse off than we are here in the US.