Intel throws a pot of gold at Ireland

INTEL IS BEING rather flahulach with its cash in the Emerald isle, investing tens of millions of eurobucks in its Leixlip, Kildare campus to bring it up to speed for the production of next-generation Intel chips.

According to sources at Post.ie, the non jibber Chipzilla has just approved a major cash injection to refit the old facilities at Leixlip with brand spanking new ones which will be able to manufacture newer technologies.

Intel’s Leixlip campus is the firm’s fourth biggest manufacturing site and the largest fabrication facility outside the US and employs about 5,000 souls. The campus has already seen about $7 billion worth of investment since it was set up in 1989, and these latest plans seem to indicate that Intel intends to keep Irish eyes smiling despite global economic woes.

Speculation has it that the refurbished facilities could be used to churn out the firm’s new Atom chips which are said to be in short supply compared with demand. An Intel Ireland spinner confirmed that there was indeed “demand on a global basis” for the new chips, to be sure, but that Intel Ireland would continue to “load-balance the different factories with different products”.

Load of blarney. µ

L’Inq
Post.ie