Intel Announces $8B Investment in Next-Gen Manufacturing in U.S.

[HardOCP News]

Intel Corporation announced today that the company will invest between $6 billion and $8 billion on future generations of manufacturing technology in its American facilities. The action will fund deployment of Intel’s next-generation 22- nanometer (nm) manufacturing process across several existing U.S. factories, along with construction of a new development fabrication plant (commonly called a “fab&#8221 in Oregon. The projects will support 6,000 to 8,000 construction jobs and result in 800 to 1,000 new permanent high-tech jobs.

 

[Jeremy C]

One of the plants they're upgrading is about an hour from me. I wonder how hard it is to get a job with Intel?

 

[Stormshade]

You dont want to work for Intel

 

[ebolamonkey3]

Why, you've heard of bad stories?

 

[bmwphysics]

You dont want to work for Intel

Yes please go on....as I type this from my G2 SSD.

 

[Arcygenical]

Yes please go on....as I type this from my G2 SSD.

You managed to type a message using an SSD? You'd make a fine intel engineer!

And Go Intel. This is good news.

 

[DeathPrincess]

The projects will support 6,000 to 8,000 construction jobs and result in 800 to 1,000 new permanent high-tech jobs.

Problem is that it will be filled by robots and not the inefficient humans!!!

 

[qbanb8582]

I'm all for anything is going to create more jobs.