{"id":548776,"date":"2026-07-14T06:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548776\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:59:21","slug":"intel-to-invest-e5-billion-in-leixlip-campus-creating-hundreds-of-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/548776\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel to invest \u20ac5 billion in Leixlip campus creating hundreds of new jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intel\u00a0has begun a \u20ac5 billion capital investment to upgrade its Leixlip\u00a0campus, taking on hundreds more to its workforce there and expanding its European output to meet growing global demand for\u00a0AI and high-performance computing, the US chipmaker said on Monday.<\/p>\n

Intel said the move would upgrade and maximise capacity at its facility in Leixlip Co Kildare that produces Intel 3 silicon wafers, which the company says is the most advanced semiconductor\u00a0manufacturing facility of its kind in Europe.<\/p>\n

It will also link the facility to other factories at the campus, Intel’s European manufacturing base, as well as advance research and development and retrain staff, Naga Chandrasekaran, executive vice president of Intel Foundry, said.<\/p>\n

Intel is one of the key multinationals in\u00a0Ireland’s foreign investment-focused economy, having already invested \u20ac30 billion in the country since 1989, more than half of which was spent\u00a0between 2019 and 2023\u00a0on the fabrication facility that doubled the available capacity in\u00a0Ireland.<\/p>\n

The leading-edge manufacturing equipment that Intel has begun to install will help deliver Intel Xeon 6 processors and next-generation Intel Xeon built on the group’s Intel 3 manufacturing process, the company said.<\/p>\n

“The demand for\u00a0servers, the demand for\u00a0AI is driving a significant increase in the need for\u00a0Intel 3 wafers,” Chandrasekaran told reporters.<\/p>\n

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Chandrasekaran said the investment would add “several hundred” more jobs to the 4,900 people Intel employs in\u00a0Ireland.<\/p>\n

The majority of the investment would be made by the end of 2027 and represent about 30% of Intel’s planned capital expenditure for\u00a02026, he added.<\/p>\n

Ireland\u00a0is hugely reliant\u00a0on the taxes and jobs of foreign multinationals such as Intel. Foreign-owned firms have almost doubled their\u00a0Irish\u00a0workforce in the last decade to make up 11% of the entire labour market.<\/p>\n

Taoiseach Micheal Martin said Intel’s latest investment was a powerful vote of confidence in\u00a0Ireland\u00a0and its position as a location for\u00a0advanced manufacturing. – Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intel\u00a0has begun a \u20ac5 billion capital investment to upgrade its Leixlip\u00a0campus, taking on hundreds more to its workforce…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-548776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}