Intel commitment proves Ireland still a good place to do business, says Ahern

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern said Intel’s commitment to another facility at Leixlip, Co Kildare, demonstrated that Ireland was still a good place in which to do business.

He was speaking at the opening of the €1.6 billion extension to Intel’s Leixlip plant in Co Kildare where the new FAB 24 plant was officially opened.

The new facility is the most technologically advanced semiconductor manufacturing plant in the world, building multi-core microprocessors and is the first of its kind outside the US, the company said.