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| | ElectricNews.net:News:Intel to open EUR1.6bn plant in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | On Wednesday, in a joint announcement involving IDA Ireland, the Tanaiste Mary Harney and Intel Corporation, it was revealed that EUR1.6 billion would be spent to build a wafer fabrication plant in Leixlip, Co, Kildare. |
 | | The Tanaiste said that the announcement was a major coup for Intel Ireland management and staff, for IDA Ireland and for the Irish economy, which has been battered in recent years as other manufacturers have departed for lower cost regions. |
 | | However, Intel has recently experienced some trouble with certain aspects of the 90nm process and earlier this month it said that technical problems meant that it would have to abandon work on its "Tejas " 90nm chip, in favour of technology that will see it build faster chips, though weaker cores. |
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