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Intel Gets Go-Ahead For $4 Billion Chip Plant In Ireland
alancronin writes "Intel has been planning to make its Ireland base one of three global manufacturing sites for its 14nm chips since May last year, and its now been given the okay by Ireland's lead planning agency. The new $4 billion plant will create around 4,300 jobs for the region in Co. Kildare, where Intel already has around 4,000 on staff. The two-year plan involves redeveloping its existing operation, expanding and shifting to make its smaller, more efficient 14nm process. Intel's plans don't stop there, however. It still plans to roll out 10nm products sometime in 2015."
maybe they'll start paying some real corporate tax then.
I don't care if the reason why they place their facility on Ireland is the low taxes. At least they are giving the Irish people jobs in return, unlike many other corporations. Also, I get to buy cheap processors that were not manufactured in Asia.
3-5 nm stacked chips running at THz speeds. Quantum coprocessing.
it should read 'ireland gets go ahead on intel job creation'. like intel were ever in danger of being turned down!!
I thought it's "lead" as in the element, Pb.
Then again, what do I know about chip manufacture?
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Ironic that your latest posts include accusing people of being prejudice.
They never used much, just in solder, but due to RoHS it is all gone now.
Ironic that your latest posts include accusing people of being prejudice.
A few posts back, but I take the point. This was meant to be light-hearted rather than vicious racism, I'm sorry if it came across wrong. Many of my relatives are Irish - and my wife has Irish ancestry.
It's a terrible idea for a joke. In terms of offensiveness it would be equivalent to referring to an investment in Israel with references to "Hymie" and the Holocaust.
I'm pretty sure you wish you delete that post, but that's the "Internet trap" - you'll never be able to delete it.
For the record, born 2nd Generation English with Irish, Italian and Austrian ancestry.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
You forgot the worst, most dastardly device at their disposal. Cookies! Use Ghostery and BetterPrivacy. Wearing a tinfoil hat won't hurt either.
The Micks will be disappointed when they realise they are not making potato chips
Even if they'd be potato chips, can you imagine the nutrition level of a 14 nm potato? And if you get to pay $400+ for a "can" of those, would this be a reason for exultation?
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
In Limerick region.
Took the subventions (massive roads, airport upgrades etc.).
Left when subventions ended (as does Ryanair in continental Europe as well...)
Today this region is a desert...
I didn't notice a reason in either article about why they decided to _create_ 4k jobs overseas, and spend 4 billion to do it. I'm sure those across the pond will assume its cause we're fat, stupid and lazy, well.. yes, but seems places like Ireland and Oregon are tax friendly too? I wonder how much of this we can expect with the tax the rich mentality we've recently adopted.
Here in California its already shown us what happens. They increased tax yet revenue tanked (the rich are simply moving and taking money with them). I really hope the reason to continue a hostile business environment is because we're stupid. Thats much better than the alternatives like we knowingly vote to take others money so more of us can do less. I'm not sure what fair share means exactly, but when 30,000 out of 38 million Californians pay 25% of the taxes and over 50% pay 0% at all using the word "fair" isn't the F word that comes to mind.
-- "of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
What a racist moron.
It's just a matter of time until there's a light saber scene between Darth Vader and Captain Kirk.
What an fascinating arguingment.
people just take it for granted that some government agency can prevent a business from opening wherever
How do you know that people take it for granted? Do you live in Ireland? No, it's quite clear that you don't.
All planning permission is obtained through An Bord Pleanála. Anyone can appeal the issue of planning permission or bring to attention the lack thereof. How exactly do you propose that a company like Intel would buy or lease enough private property in Leixlip to create 4,300 jobs without getting permission?
Your comment is rightly scored at -1. While I'm on the subject, I read through the first few "comments worth making" and they are also correctly scored. The irony of you posting this as your sig is that many of the replies effectively point out the madness in the original post. Clearly, roman_mir is trying to help people, but is so ill-informed and impervious to reason that he's just posting the same old nonsense over and over again without questioning himself.
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It's a terrible joke, but it's hardly offensive. It's a well known joke around the Intel plant in Ireland, and occasionally a chat-up line.
8 of their 11 current fabs are in the USA, one is in Ireland, one is in Israel, one is in China. The Chinese plant doesn't do CPUs, as far as I know, as it is an older process. They do some packaging in Asia, in Singapore if I remember correctly, but you don't tend to see those chips in the US and EU as they have closer packaging plants (in the US you mostly see products from the US packaging plant and their Costa Rica plant).
AMD also isn't Asia focused for CPUs. They have them manufactured at Global Foundries which has a fab in the US, Germany, and Singapore.
Discrete GPUs are all fabbed in Asia these days, specifically in Taiwan by TSMC. Now that may change as TSMC has been badly fucking up they may switch to someone else but for now, all TSMC.
In terms of other stuff, like mobile processors, it can vary highly. For example Samsung is a big player in that market and you might expect Korea to be where they fab. While that's true for flash, for processors it is most in Texas. If you have a phone with a 32nm Samsung processor, Texas ware probably where it was made.
Well... we're talking about a huge manufacturing facility that requires it's own substations and high voltage hookup via a network of pylons. One that needs millions of litres of fresh water. Not to mention the huge car parks for all the workers that permanently alters the run-off of rain, and makes floods much more likely. And that minor detail of the need of transport infrastructure to stop the area around being permanently gridlocked. Yeah... i'm pretty thankful we have a Government agency to make sure all that gets thought of ahead of time and corporations can't just ride in an destroy a country at a whim. If anything i wish they hadn't been so laid back in the past on planning and avoided things like apartments exceeding the water supply for an entire district, business parks miles from the nearest public transport and huge shopping centres right next to motorways turning them into car parks.
It's maybe not in good taste, and it's not exactly hilarious but racist?? C'mon. It's a pretty obvious joke, one that get thrown around a lot at Intel.
I remember quite a bit of my software and some hardware coming from Ireland in the late eighties an early nineties. I still have my old Apple PowerBook 170 that was made in Ireland. Good on 'em!
change it.
We want money to be stolen from actual productive people and given to us. That's it, that's the ticket to prosperity. Theft and redistribution.
Don't be an ignoramus. People have been subject to "theft and redistribution" ever since the occupants of the first settlement of three straw huts decided to enclose it with a common fence. Nobody would be "productive" without taking plenty of advantage of government-supplied services and protection. Corporations are no exception to this.
Taxes are a basic part of the way human society functions, and always have been Deal with it.
Oh really? Try this one on for size: "The blacks will be disappointed when they realise they are not making KFC"
All of a sudden it's shocking and racist. And yet the Irish have been subjected to as much if not more horrific slavery (about a third of the country enslaved and sent to Jamaica to work in the plantations, being buried where they dropped in the fields), attempted genocides and deliberate destruction throughout their history than any African nation. At the tail end of which we have Chrisq and his paddy joke. Anyone who thinks that's funny needs their head examined.
Intel wants more horse meat in their products.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
...after all, that's a good local supply of potatoes they got there.
Wonder what flavours they'll be making? Classics like Barbeque and Salt and Vinegar, or will they be targeting the specialty flavour markets, like Sauerkraut Surprise? (Surprise...it's sauerkraut flavoured!)
Meh...please excuse my Friday silliness... ;o)
"I love animals! Some are cute, others are tasty, what's not to like?" - Betsy Schroeder, Jeopardy contestant
I assume you're not American.
KFC is shit. YumFoods brand. Awful. KFC is to good chicken; as Taco Bell is to good Mexican, as Arby's is to a good roast beef sandwich, as Pizza Hut is to good pizza. To you notice a pattern? YumFoods brands are uniformly shit. Owned by Japanese who, I assume, don't like American food.
Black folks are sometimes so proud they wont let white people see them eat fried chicken, watermelon or half dozen stereotyped foods. When they do you can bet they know a better place then KFC.
I can make great pan fried chicken. Cheap and easy, the key is timing the breading (10-15 minutes) and owning racks (has to be exposed to air, top and bottom).
Did I mention I love fried chicken. Don't use KFC when you mean 'fried chicken'.
I once was a bored kid, writing a 'login page'. If you used Nigger or any of a list of slurs as a login attempt it said:
Fried watermelon error, stopped in East St.Louis
C:\EStLouis\>
If you used Paddy, Mic, PoagMahone it said:
Dropped Molotov error, server room on fire, admin drunk.
I had an extensive case statement. At the time I was paid for shit and was making sure they got fair value.
At this point in my day, (posting rambling shit on /.) I should quit pretending and go home.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
That's about 1% of the unemployed people here in Ireland in one fell swoop. This is a big win for the Irish economy! :)
Many of those people will need training, and the knock-on effects will be massive!
It's also jobs for folks who are outside of Dublin. That plant is out in Leixlip.