The Intel Ireland Campus located at Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, is one of Intel's largest manufacturing sites overall, and the largest outside the United States.
Intel first decided to locate a technology campus in Ireland in 1989, and production of motherboards and systems commenced in the following year.
Since then over 6.0 billion Euro (EUR) have been invested in turning the 360 acre former stud farm into the most technologically advanced industrial location in Europe.
This knowledge and capital intensive Leixlip facility has approximately 4,500 working at the site. In addition, there are over 200 people employed at Intel Communications Europe located in Shannon, Co. Clare, which is the Ireland product development arm of our Communications Product Group. Intel Shannon provides a single integrated point of focus for Intel activity in embedded market segments. Over 75% of our employees have higher level qualifications in the fields of Science, Engineering or Technology.
Our Leixlip campus is the location of four semi-conductor wafer fabrication facilities; Fab 10 and Fab 14, which operate jointly as Ireland Fab Operations, and Fab 24 and Fab 24-2 which operate jointly as Fab 24.
IFO is critical to the Intel Fab network and has the highest product mix and most complex operation of Intel worldwide. IFO is currently equipped to run over 65 individual products, three times that of any other Intel 200mm facility worldwide. IFO produces both flash memory and logic devices. The Fab 24 facility processes 300mm wafers on both 90 and 65-nanometer process technologies. Fab 24 is one of Intel's most technologically advanced, high-volume manufacturing plants in the world. These facilities produce latest generation silicon microprocessors that power platforms and technology advancements which are essential to the way we learn, live and work today.
The campus is also home to other Intel businesses including the Intel® Innovation Centre. The Intel® Innovation Centre has global responsibility to research and develop innovative leading-edge IT solutions and technology. The Intel® Innovation Centre is at the forefront of demonstrating how Information Technology and Intel products can continue to deliver new competitive advantage. The centre, in partnership with NUI Maynooth, has set up the Innovation Value Institute, a multi-disciplinary research and education Institute which was designed to help achieve sustainable economic value from IT and quantify and understand the true business value of strategic IT investments.
Intel announced in January 2009, at the European Parliament, the creation of Intel® Labs Europe, with the goal of expanding the scope of its European R&D activities. Intel® Labs Europe will coordinate innovation activity and future investments against an Innovation Agenda focused on enabling a Digital Europe which is aligned with the renewed EU Lisbon Strategy and the EU i2010 strategic initiative. A focused research agenda will include areas such as advanced microprocessor research, high performance computing, enterprise solutions and green computing.
The Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) centre is located at the Leixlip campus and is part of our Digital Health initiative. TRIL brings together world-class industry and academic experts who are inventing and testing new technologies with older people and their families to support them in continuing to live healthy and independent lives. Many other Intel employees are involved in Research and Development. Intel funds over 50 PhD's and works closely with the CRANN Nanoscience Research Centre in Trinity College Dublin and the Tyndall National Research Institute in Cork.
Intel Ireland has an excellent environmental management track record. Our Environmental Management System is accredited to the ISO 14001 quality standard. We have also recently been accredited with the IS 393 Energy Management standard.
Intel strives to be a trusted, leading corporate citizen. Corporate responsibility at Intel Ireland reflects our deep respect for people and for the communities around us. This means listening to, learning from, and communicating openly with all of our stakeholders. It's simply how we do business.
Intel first decided to locate a technology campus in Ireland in 1989, and production of motherboards and systems commenced in the following year.