Intel Celebrates 10 Years in Kulim
Kulim, Malaysia, May 25, 2006 – Intel today officially opened the Kulim Design and Development Centre, a US$40 million centre within Malaysia’s Kulim Hi-Tech Park. This opening marks the 10th anniversary of Intel’s presence in Kulim and is the latest in a series of investments in Malaysia by Intel, that now amount to US$3 billion in total. Intel also announced an employee volunteer program to support the local communities it serves across Malaysia.

“The opening of Kulim Design and Development Centre reflects the fact that Malaysia’s talented workforce has become increasingly integral to Intel,” Intel Corporation President and CEO Paul Otellini said at today’s event. “This new Design and Development Centre, along with Intel’s continued work with the Malaysian government to drive manufacturing and engineering activities, will strengthen the country’s economic competitiveness in the global marketplace.”

Y.A.B. Dato’ Seri Hj Mahdzir Bin Khalid, “Menteri Besar” Kedah Darul Aman also spoke at the Centre’s opening. “The investments by Intel in Malaysia are testimony of the Malaysian government’s support to global investors. We view this as recognition of the Malaysian government’s capability to continue attracting new investment in the face of fierce competition from within the region and globally.”

The Kulim Design and Development Centre will complement Intel’s current assembly/test and board operations in Kulim. Engineers will staff approximately 192,987 square feet of labs – as big as almost two football fields – and will design microprocessors, chipsets, motherboards, server boards and customer application microchips for use in Intel’s products worldwide.

Commenting on Intel’s 10-year history in Kulim, KC Yoon, managing director, Assembly and Test, Intel Malaysia, commended Malaysia’s increasingly sophisticated engineering skills.

“This site, which initially supported just assembly, test and packaging activities, has dramatically increased its engineering focus during the last 10 years,” Yoon added. “With the opening of this Centre, we intend to grow our workforce at this site by 30 percent and increasingly deliver innovative technologies that impact Intel’s products globally.”

The Centre is intended to employ approximately 900 people, bringing Intel’s anticipated total number of employees in Kulim to more than 3,000.

In conjunction with celebrating its 10th anniversary of operating in Kulim, Intel also announced a program supporting the local communities it serves across Malaysia. The Volunteer Matching Grant Program (VMGP) encourages Intel employees to volunteer in local schools. For every 20 hours an Intel employee volunteers at a school, US$75 will be donated to the institution by the Intel Foundation. Funded solely through donations from Intel, the Intel Foundation works to strengthen engineering and computer science education. Intel encourages participation in these fields by women and under-represented minorities, to improve mathematics and science education for elementary and secondary students and fosters the effective use of computer technology in education.

“Intel believes in being an asset to the communities where our employees work and live. By working directly with the Malaysia’s youth, our employees can personalize why science, math and technology education is important and creates life-changing opportunities,” said Otellini.

Intel Malaysia hopes to inculcate recycling habits in today’s youth
KULIM, April 25, 2006 – Intel Malaysia seeks to increase awareness, responsibility and action toward a clean, healthy environment which are important values that Intel Malaysia seeks to inculcate in young Malaysians in Penang and Kulim. Today, the Intel Malaysia Recycling Campaign was launched by YB Dato’ Dr. Teng Hock Nan, Penang State Exco for Local Government, Traffic Management, Information, and Community Relations, at the Intel Malaysia premises in Bayan Baru, Penang.

One of the aspects of this campaign will involve a paper recycling competition between 58 schools in Penang and Kulim. The main objective of this campaign is to raise the environmental awareness amongst students of these schools whilst encouraging students to reduce, reuse and recycle. Additionally, within Intel Malaysia, there will be an inter-building competition within its sites in Penang and Kulim, in a bid to collect the largest amount of solid waste for sale to Malaysia Newsprint Industries.

Apart from supporting the local environment, funds raised from the sale of the solid waste will be channeled towards WWF-Malaysia for their conservation work.

“We would like Malaysians from all walks of life to learn more about recycling and its benefits to our ecosystem. At Intel Malaysia, we feel a responsibility to the local environment. We believe in not only contributing time, effort but also our knowledge and passion towards conservation of the environment. This campaign is just one of our many initiatives towards the environment we work and live in” said Mr. KC Yoon, Managing Director, Assembly and Test, Intel Malaysia.

From April 25, 2006 till 30 June 2006, students at these 58 schools will have to fill up the recycling bins located within their school compound. At the end of each week during the competition, representatives from Malaysia Newsprint Industries (MNI) will collect and weigh the material in each school’s bin to determine the winner. 30 laptops are up for grabs for winning schools.

Additionally, at this event Intel Malaysia celebrated the launch of the new “Intel Community” logo, to highlight Intel’s significant contributions to communities at the local, national and international levels. Intel employees have a long history of changing the world through their volunteer and philanthropic support, and this identity captures that spirit. This identity will be used for all Intel’s community volunteer and charitable activities.

PETALING JAYA, April 6, 2006 – In support of the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP), Intel Malaysia today announced that it would ramp up collaboration with local universities, to drive the implementation of decision science as an engine for productivity growth. Intel aims to equip local graduates with the right skills and knowledge to make them more employable in a digital economy. Decision science, which teaches a scientific approach to decision making, will train local graduates to solve problems by mathematical optimization, simulation modeling, statistical and computing methods.

“Intel is committed to use our industry knowledge to help Malaysia train a future generation of knowledge workers that can competitive effectively in fast growing digital ASEAN (d-ASEAN) economies of this region. As our hope for the future, these knowledge workers play a critical role in ensuring that Malaysia is moving up the value chain in a global economy. Decision science will help develop a first-class mentality that can provide local graduates with an edge over the escalating stakes in international competition,” said Dr. Siek Kah Hee, site education manager, Intel Malaysia.

The government has acknowledged that the development of human capital including the upgrading of the mental and intellectual capacity of the nation is one of its biggest challenges under the 9MP. High on the list of national priorities, is improving the quality of tertiary education and developing the human capital in local universities. Local universities must ensure that the courses that they offer are in line with the nation’s needs. This is critical to ensure the creation of a resource pool of high quality human capital that can accelerate the nation’s evolution towards a digital economy.

“There is now added pressure on local universities to ensure that the 44,000 graduates who join the labor force in Malaysia each year, are equipped with the right skills and knowledge that can make them employable in a global economy. Intel is willing to work closely with the university community to leverage decision science to produce a university curriculum that is strong in content and is industry relevant,” said KH Ooi, general manager, Intel Malaysia.

“Both the industry and the nation as a whole will stand to benefit from the increasing availability of first-class human capital trained in the subject of decision science. Decision science is an especially important tool for graduates entering manufacturing and service sectors to use quantitative techniques to improve productivity and decision making” added Ooi.

Intel has been working closely with Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) to bridge the gaps between decision science theories and practice over the last 1.5 years. Intel senior technical staff deliver technical lectures on various decision science topics and share how real-world problems are solved in industry and the software tools used.

Intel also sponsored the purchase of 20 ILOG Optimization Programming Language Studio academic licenses for use by graduate students and faculty research in mathematical optimization. Some UUM graduate students also uses Intel’s real-world problems for their research.

“The syllabus teaches students to become more analytical and prudent in their decision making processes. Students learn faster and receive hands-on training through the workshop and lectures provided on site by the technical experts from Intel. The implementation of decision science into the local curricula helps UUM to be positively benchmarked against international standards,” said Assoc. Prof. Dr. Engku Muhammad Nazri, dean of Faculty of Quantitative Science, Universiti Utara Malaysia.

Intel’s investments in education to date amount to nearly USD1 billion worldwide, to help today's students prepare for the demands of tomorrow. The drive to implement decision science as a core subject in local universities in Malaysia is part of an Intel® Higher Education program. The program focuses on advancing innovation in key areas of technology and developing a pipeline of world-class technical talent to meet the increasing worldwide demand for highly skilled workers. Intel Malaysia collaborates with selected universities in the country to expand university curriculum, engage in focused research, and encourage students to pursue a range of opportunities for technical study and research.

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Intel, the world’s largest chipmaker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel Malaysia is available at http://www.intel.com/community/malaysia.

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