Ireland secures €50M Intel investment

04 Mar 2009 | News
Intel is to invest over €50 million in a major expansion at its Research and Development facility in County Clare, Ireland, creating up to 134 new jobs.


Intel is to invest over €50 million in a major expansion at its Research and Development facility in County Clare, Ireland, creating up to 134 new jobs over the next 4 years and bringing total employment at the site to 300.

The investment involves two separate R&D projects. The first is a new hardware project involving advanced 32 nanometre silicon design and validation, which aims to enable the next generation of products to provide a combination of improved performance, power efficiency, smaller footprint and increased cost-effectiveness. The output of the project will be a new chip with an improved design for embedded applications.

The second project is a software development project to extend Intel QuickAssist Technology.

Barry O’Leary, vhief executive of the inward investment body IDA Ireland, said securing the investment is an endorsement of the Team Ireland approach in which state development agencies, local authorities and educational establishments work together to encourage new investment in Ireland, while supporting the strategy of balanced regional development.


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