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Intel job loss, and associated speculation

croo · 2009-07-22 20:24:33

I guess it was all just bluster to take some eyes & heat off the real story of that day... which was that intel have begun their pullout from Ireland.

22-07-2009 8:24pm

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I guess it was all just bluster to take some eyes & heat off the real story of that day... which was that intel have begun their pullout from Ireland.

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#2 22-07-2009 8:49pm

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I don't know if they are pulling out. They still have a large number of people employed in Ireland and massive facilities that were recently being worked on and I guess updated (just saw the works driving by, didn't read about what was going on).

They won't pull all jobs out of Ireland anyway, not all the jobs are in the manufacturing side of things in the plant.

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#3 22-07-2009 9:35pm

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I had heard in April that Intel were chopping 350 of 1500 jobs 'shortly' with the rest of the 1500 to follow late this year and next year. Not a pullout .

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#4 22-07-2009 10:00pm

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Hmm touchy point.
Okay, perhaps I was being too flippant! I have no inside info and no connections. I too had read the rumours in previous months of 1500 jobs with 300 going first... which has now happened so I put some more credence in the 1500 rumour.
I also read rumours supposedly from intel staff that the next generation "1270 line" might not now come here after all. So that leaves what they call their F24, which I understood is a recent fab (2006) that is still producing fairly modern 65nm core2 chips.

After saying that when you spend billions building these fabs you don't just up and leave, so even if intel had decided right now today they were leaving asap it would not happen over night but take years. So when I spoke of leaving, if it happens at all, I meant in terms that the next generation chips are not being made here while the existing fabs are let run down. A first step in a business that moves at near glacial speeds in these matters.

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#5 22-07-2009 11:28pm

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Intel spent $20 billion on their fabrication plant in the USA last year in the depths of a recession in the USA, their long term plans don't include Ireland I'm afraid

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#6 27-07-2009 10:54am

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Moved IoffL > Work & Jobs

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#7 27-07-2009 11:00am

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Already a thread about this here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055626257

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