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Intel Gets Green Light for $4 Billion Irish Chip Plant

By - Source: SiliconRepublic | B 42 comments

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.

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    sixdegree , January 26, 2013 11:46 AM
    I expect the Irish Intel CPU will be bundled with a heatsink, a fan, and a pint of guinness.
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    manofchalk , January 26, 2013 9:42 AM
    Trying to come up with a joke on Irish Intel chips being lucky, cant think of anything...
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    tokencode , January 26, 2013 2:34 PM
    To continue to shrink their die sizes, intel has decided to start employing leprechauns.
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    wintermint , January 26, 2013 9:31 AM
    Be nice if we stop outsourcing to different country to save money. The US economy would have benefit from this :( 
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    jezzjc , January 26, 2013 9:38 AM
    wintermintBe nice if we stop outsourcing to different country to save money. The US economy would have benefit from this


    Because f*ck other countries economies...
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    patrick47018 , January 26, 2013 9:41 AM
    Sweet, too bad it couldn't of been in 'murica
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    manofchalk , January 26, 2013 9:42 AM
    Trying to come up with a joke on Irish Intel chips being lucky, cant think of anything...
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    neon neophyte , January 26, 2013 9:51 AM
    don't feel too bad guys, 2 of the 14nm plants are in the United States of America. Only 1 is located elsewhere, and that is this one.
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    omnimodis78 , January 26, 2013 11:27 AM
    wintermintBe nice if we stop outsourcing to different country to save money. The US economy would have benefit from this

    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.
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    sixdegree , January 26, 2013 11:46 AM
    I expect the Irish Intel CPU will be bundled with a heatsink, a fan, and a pint of guinness.
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    house70 , January 26, 2013 12:12 PM
    While Samsung opens up fabs in Texas... Go figure.
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    A Bad Day , January 26, 2013 12:33 PM
    wintermintBe nice if we stop outsourcing to different country to save money. The US economy would have benefit from this


    Maybe the Irish has more and better engineers than we do...

    Minus the drinking of course.
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    Shin-san , January 26, 2013 1:27 PM
    wintermintBe nice if we stop outsourcing to different country to save money. The US economy would have benefit from this
    Intel is making a plant in New York, along with a lot of other companies.
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    tokencode , January 26, 2013 2:34 PM
    To continue to shrink their die sizes, intel has decided to start employing leprechauns.
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    spentshells , January 26, 2013 2:37 PM
    tokencodeTo continue to shrink their die sizes, intel has decided to start employing leprechauns.


    Ok Ill give that to ya 2/10
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    jkflipflop98 , January 26, 2013 2:39 PM
    house70While Samsung opens up fabs in Texas... Go figure.


    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.
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    Anonymous , January 26, 2013 2:49 PM
    So long as we put a nice tariff on those chips being sold back to the United States, they can build the plant where they want. If they want US dollars to buy them, then they should pay the piper.
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    spentshells , January 26, 2013 2:53 PM
    jkflipflop98Texas 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
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    master_chen , January 26, 2013 2:54 PM
    ...hmmm...so Skylake and Skymont would have freckles and their box coloring scheme would be ginger instead of blue? Nice.
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    jkflipflop98 , January 26, 2013 2:59 PM
    spentshellsA 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.
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    oxiide , January 26, 2013 3:33 PM
    wintermintBe nice if we stop outsourcing to different country to save money. The US economy would have benefit from this

    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.
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    hiposho , January 26, 2013 4:58 PM
    gives new meaning to fish and chips doesnt it
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    hiposho , January 26, 2013 4:58 PM
    gives new meaning to fish and chips doesnt it
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