Intel invests $5.7 billion to expand Ireland chip campus

According to the company, the programme encompasses upgrades to fabrication facilities, caller manufacturing equipment, and an enlargement of the automated way strategy that links abstracted modules crossed the field into a unified accumulation environment. The programme volition besides beforehand probe and improvement activities astatine the site.

The Leixlip field produces Intel Xeon 6 processors and next-generation Intel Xeon chips built connected the company's Intel 3 manufacturing process. "The request for servers, the request for AI is driving a important summation successful the request for Intel 3 wafers," Naga Chandrasekaran, Intel's enforcement vice president and main exertion and operations officer, told Reuters.

Chandrasekaran said the concern would adhd respective 100 jobs to the 4,900 radical Intel presently employs successful Ireland. End-2027 is the people for deploying astir of the funds, a fig that amounts to astir 30% of the $17 cardinal Intel has penciled successful for superior expenditure crossed 2026, Reuters reported.

Intel said spending nether the programme got underway earlier this year. Since arriving successful Ireland successful 1989 — wherever it present runs its superior European manufacturing operations — the institution has poured much than €30 cardinal into the state and built a workforce of astir 4,900 radical astatine the Leixlip campus.

Monday's announcement is portion of a broader propulsion by Intel to rebuild its manufacturing standing. Intel reported first-quarter 2026 gross of $13.6 billion, up 7% from a twelvemonth earlier, driven by spot successful its information halfway and foundry businesses. Intel Foundry gross roseate 16% to $5.4 cardinal that quarter, portion the Data Center and AI portion brought successful $5.1 billion, a 22% year-over-year gain. Chief Financial Officer David Zinsner cited "unprecedented request for silicon" and said Intel's proviso could not support gait with lawsuit orders.

Ireland's authorities welcomed the announcement. Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said the announcement affirmed Ireland's lasting arsenic a destination for cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing, describing it arsenic "a almighty ballot of assurance successful Ireland." IDA Ireland Chief Executive Officer Michael Lohan said the concern demonstrated the worth of Ireland's skilled workforce and unchangeable concern environment, the institution said.

Intel said the concern besides supports European Union goals astir exertion sovereignty by contributing to a home proviso of processors wrong Europe.