The Intel Technology Campus Europe located at Collinstown Industrial Park, Leixlip, County Kildare, is Intel's fourth largest manufacturing site 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 has 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 employs approximately 5,000 people both directly and indirectly. In addition, there are 150 people employed at Intel Communications Europe located in Shannon, Co. Clare, which is the Ireland product development arm of our Communications Product Group. It is dedicated to the design and development of advanced broadband technologies for network access devices. Over 75% of our employees have higher level qualifications in the fields of Science, Engineering or Technology.
There are currently two semi-conductor wafer fabrication facilities at the Leixlip campus; Fab 10 and Fab 14, which have merged to form Ireland Fab Operations (IFO), and Fab 24 which is a combination of Fab 24 and Fab 24-2.
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 combines Fab 24 and Fab 24-2. Fab 24 processes 300mm wafers on both 90 and 65-nanometer process technologies. Fab 24 is one of Intel's most technologically advanced, high-volume manufacturing plant in the world building multi-core microprocessors.
The campus is also home to other Intel businesses including the Intel® Innovation Centre (IIC). The IIC has global responsibility to research and develop innovative leading-edge IT solutions and technology. It involved a total investment by Intel of over €12 million. The IIC is at the forefront of demonstrating how Information Technology and Intel products can continue to deliver new competitive advantage through the development of compelling new IT value propositions.
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.
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 strives to be a trusted, leading corporate citizen. Intel aims to integrate social responsibility and uncompromising integrity into everything we do, working to advance people and better the planet through active commitment to education, community and environmental sustainability.
Intel endeavors at all times to be an asset to our communities. This is exemplified through initiatives such as Intel Involved and Community Solutions. For more information visit Community Involvement.
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. For more information visit Environmental, Health and Safety.
Intel first decided to locate a technology campus in Ireland in 1989, and production of motherboards and systems commenced in the following year.