Bill, Re: "Where do the key Alpha people work now?"
About Intel Massachusettes
It employs 200 former members of the Compaq Alpha microprocessor development team who joined Intel in August 2001.
It will continue to grow over the next two years as more members of
Compaq’s Alpha engineering team transfer to Intel under the companies’ agreement
announced in June 2001
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Intel has a strong and growing manufacturing and research and development presence in Massachusetts. Intel acquired its Hudson campus in May 1998. The 149-acre site includes 1.3 million square feet of building space, including the "Fab 17" semiconductor-manufacturing plant. The company is investing $1.5 billion to upgrade its Hudson semiconductor plant to the latest Intel-standard manufacturing processes.
Intel’s Massachusetts Development Center, also based in Hudson, has grown to more than 400 engineers and software developers. The new Massachusetts Microprocessor Development Center in Shrewsbury opened in August 2001. It employs 200 former members of the Compaq Alpha microprocessor development team who joined Intel in August 2001.
Intel’s total employment in Massachusetts now exceeds 3,000.
Manufacturing in Hudson
In December 1999, Intel announced that it would invest $800 million to upgrade Fab 17 to become a major manufacturing center for Intel microprocessors
In December 2000, Intel announced a second major investment, primarily for advanced manufacturing tools, that brings Intel’s total investment in Hudson’s Fab 17 to $1.5 billion. This represents one of the state’s largest manufacturing investments.
Intel’s Hudson campus now employs about 2500 people.
Research and Development in Hudson
In October 1999, Intel announced the creation of the Massachusetts Development Center on its Hudson and Bedford campuses. Similar centers exist in Arizona, California, Texas, Israel and China. The Massachusetts center supports the following Intel businesses that are located on the Hudson campus. Most are part of the Intel Communications Group (ICG).
The I/O Bridge Division, part of ICG, aims to lead the industry in I/O processor and connectivity products. It develops and markets a comprehensive set of I/O application building blocks for the PCI and InfiniBand segments.
The Network Processor Division, also part of ICG, provides intelligent microprocessor building blocks used for networking equipment. The group’s flagship product is the IXP1200 Network Processor, a key component in Intel’s Internet Exchange Architecture.
The Residential Access Division, also reporting into ICG, designs hardware for DSL gateways and modems. It also provides manufacturing solutions and lab testing for DSL modems.
The Engineering Services Group provides CAD, physical design, packaging and validation support services for various ICG product lines.
The Handheld Computing Division, part of Intel’s Wireless Communication and Computing Group, works on processors that offer both high performance and low electrical consumption. These processors power the Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC* and Hewlett-Packard Jornada* as well as many other products.
The Microcomputer Software Labs, part of the Intel Architecture Group, build technology for high-performance embedded software development tools.
The Massachusetts Microprocessor Development Center in Shrewsbury
This is predominantly an engineering group focused on microprocessor design and
Development. It will continue to grow over the next two years as more members of
Compaq’s Alpha engineering team transfer to Intel under the companies’ agreement
announced in June 2001
Other Massachusetts sites
Intel's Massachusetts’s Bedford campus is the home of Intel Network Systems, (formerly Shiva Corporation). Intel Massachusetts also has smaller sites in Westford and Lowell.
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