Ireland is Intel's centre of manufacturing excellence in Europe. Since 1989, Intel has invested US$7 billion turning 360 acres of the Collinstown Industrial Park into the most advanced industrial campus in Europe.

Over 4,000 people work at the Leixlip, Co. Kildare campus and 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. Our Leixlip campus is the location of the Ireland Fab Operations (IFO) and Fab 24 semi-conductor wafer fabrication facilities.

IFO, a 200mm facility, is currently equipped to produce high mix low volume products. The Fab 24 facility produces 300mm wafers on multiple process technologies and is one of Intel's most technologically advanced, high-volume manufacturing plants in the world. These facilities produce leading edge silicon products that power platforms and technology advancements which are essential to the way we learn, live and work today.

The core advanced manufacturing capability at the Leixlip site is a key enabler for numerous research and development initiatives

At Intel Ireland, there is a team of employees involved in Silicon Nanoelectronics Research. The team collaborates extensively with research institutes such as the CRANN Nanoscience Research Centre in Trinity College Dublin and the Tyndall National Research Institute in Cork. The team also collaborate with universities, other companies from across Ireland and Europe, and with the more than 50PhD students who are co- funded by Intel.

The campus is also home to other Intel businesses including the Innovation Open Lab - Ireland (IOL). The IOL has global responsibility to research and develop innovative leading-edge IT solutions and technology. The IOL is at the forefront of demonstrating how Information Technology and Intel products can continue to deliver new competitive advantage.

The IOL is part of Intel Labs Europe (ILE) which has the goal of expanding the scope of Intel's European R&D activities. ILE coordinates innovation activity and future investments against an Innovation Agenda focused on enabling a Digital Europe. A focused research agenda includes areas such as advanced microprocessor research, high performance computing, enterprise solutions and green computing.

Another area of Intel Ireland research is that of the Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) Centre. TRIL is an international research centre set up to define and profile the ageing process, in order to develop technologies to allow more successful ageing. Founded in 2007, it has succeeded in raising the agenda for ageing research both nationally and internationally. TRIL is collaboration between Intel, GE Healthcare, University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland, Galway. TRIL seeks to enable people to live independently at any age by advancing the understanding of behavioural markers of disease, and how technology can be applied to produce positive interventions

Intel Shannon (located in Shannon Co Clare)

Intel Shannon was formed in 2000 and provides a single integrated point of focus for Intel activity in embedded market segments in EMEA. The engineering teams in both silicon and software engineering have well-established track records of disciplined successful project execution on innovative products and have developed innovative R&D methods that have been adopted at other Intel R&D teams around the world. The current focus of R&D activity is in the general area of providing our embedded customers with even more compelling solutions in bladed server applications and highly integrated small form factor solutions for applications prevalent in many embedded market segments. This means carefully engineering products that can cope with the often harsh environments associated with embedded applications while delivering exciting levels of performance at a highly competitive price point. The business team in Shannon manages strategic relationships with the key embedded customer accounts in EMEA, identifies and develops new business opportunities for our products in embedded applications and provides specialist technical support throughout the region for Intel's products in embedded applications. Intel Shannon has been selected as one of Ireland's the Top 20 workplaces for 2010 by the Great Place to Work institute.