“Months of fine-tuning construction plans and five years of trying to change state tax laws paid off Monday when Intel Corp. announced that it would build a $3 billion computer-chip plant in Arizona. The chip giant’s decision brings another 1,000 high-paying jobs to the Valley and a much-needed boost to Arizona’s wavering reputation as a high-technology center,” Jane Larson reports for The Arizona Republic. “Lawmakers and the governor said they hope it will be the beginning of other announcements that high-tech companies are expanding in the state.”
“‘This is a great day for moving Arizona forward,’ Gov. Janet Napolitano said at a Monday news conference hailing the announcement. Napolitano was visiting Intel’s facility in Ireland last week when she learned of Arizona’s selection. Construction, which will start Aug. 2, will create about 3,000 jobs. By the time the plant opens in late 2007, it will add about 1,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs to Intel’s Chandler campus. The jobs for engineers, technicians and supervisors range in pay from $40,000 to $100,000 a year, said Tom Franz, vice president and general manager of fab/sort manufacturing for Intel,” Larson reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Let’s hope Chandler, AZ produces better than Fishkill, NY did for Apple.
“Intel Inside”…
is a warning lable
WTF, Arizona wants a company that uses millions of gallons of fresh water daily for a region that has none (other than an aquifer that isn’t replentished at the rate it’s being depleted). Albuquerque did the same thing and has the same issues.
From an environmental perspective, this is retarded.
They should put big “intel inside” stickers on all the signs welcoming you to the state.
Who cares? They’ll just do what they’ve been doing for years: steal the water from the Indians.
Would you prefer that the new plant be built in, say, Tiawan?
What’s your solution, no jobs?
You may have a point that AZ is short on water–it is a desert, right?–but last time I visited the growth was still enormous and there were plenty water-gobbling golf courses and lawns. That said, I hope AZ doesn’t end up offering so many subsidies to Intel that they end up on the short end of the stick.
Kate
Chandler, AZ….there’s a “Friends” joke in this somewhere…isn’t there?
Not to mention the air conditioning bill!
i work at the intel rio rancho, new mexico, site (not albuquerque). intel is very aware of the enviromental impact that it makes, and goes to great lengths to be a good neighbor. we get our water from deep wells; the water is treated beyond what is required for municipal use before being returned to the system. the last time i checked, the water in this country belonged to the American people, not just to the indians (screw the indians; what have they ever done, except put their hand out for the white man’s largess). the employment that will become available will provide an excellent standard of living in the area. our site here in new mexico is very large, and is very successful; everyone seems to agree. the new processors that will be made at the Arizona facility will be very fast, resulting in exciting products from Apple. btw; i am a long-time Mac user; it is great to be able to “come out”, now that chipzilla and His Steveness are buddies!
Janet Napolitano… hey, Concrete Blonde was a GREAT band!! I always wondered what happened to her after Jim Mankey left the band. Good to see she landed on her feet and got a government job…
[BTW, I know that the esteemed Governor of Arizona really wasn’t the lead singer of Concrete Blonde. I just think the similarity in their names is amusing.]
(screw the indians; what have they ever done, except put their hand out for the white man’s largess).
or to get their hands chopped of by Columbus for not fetching enough gold?
Least we forget, Indians are also Americans, and forcibly so.
“Hey zupchuck” My solution is not no jobs. But why in a desert? Why not in an area that essentially has adequate replentishing of the aquifer (deep well)? The jobs follow the plant.
I’m not dinging billysmom, but of course Intel is a good neighbor, they get amazing tax breaks and other breaks to be there. And not all of the water is returned back to the aquifer. Tell me how of it does not?… It’s millions of gallons a day. And sure it provides jobs (as it would wherever the plant was built). And not everyone agrees (I’ve been to ALBQ area and have relatives there).
The Indians – I guess we didn’t slaughter their people, take their land, and rennig on most of our treaties with them when it suited our purpose. It is our own holocaust in the name of progress. That said, it’s time they did took responsibility for themselves at this point. Time to get past the “woe is me” mentality.
Sure the water belongs to the American people (not just industry). I think it insane to have golf courses, lawns more green than we find in the Northeast, and plants that aren’t sustanable without constant irrigation. If you choose to live in a desert, then accept it.
Some proof-reading aside in my earlier post…
..If you choose to live in a desert, then accept it. That is something we could certainly learn from the Indians we quickly diminish and ridicule.
If it wasn’t for the radical left-wing pinkos in California, with all their concern for toads and gnat-catchers, that plant could have been here. Great job Arizona.
who lives in Arizona?
…old people (i dont think there’re looking for jobs) and Mexicans (who cares if they have jobs…they can pick our tomatoes)
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they should have put this plant in wisconsin (where there lots of water)
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jojo, you’ll love this one.
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for training.
One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question.
His son translated for the NASA people: “What are these guys in the big suits doing?”
One of the astronauts said that they were practicing a trip to the moon. When his son relayed this comment the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it would be possible to give to the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official accompanying the astronauts said, “Why certainly!” and told an underling to get a tape recorder.
The Navajo elder’s comments into the microp! hone were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed uproariously. But he refused to translate.
So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for other members of the tribe. They too laughed long and loudly but also refused to translate the elder’s message to the moon.
An official government translator was summoned. After he finally stopped laughing the translator relayed the message:
“WATCH OUT FOR THESE ASSHOLES. THEY HAVE COME TO STEAL YOUR LAND.”
> and rennig on most of our treaties >
Hey, that’s almost a banned word. You probably meant -reneg,
as in- re-negotiate.
ron,
Yes. But “renege” is the spelling that escaped me.
zupchuck.
I stand collected, even though there is no logic in the last ‘e’.
There was a time this site and everyone reading this post could care less what Intel was doing in the computing world. MDN only reported on Mac, Moto and IBM and the occasional Microsoft bashing articles and its related cronies(including Intel).
Now MDN is tracking every single move Intel makes to speculate how it relates to the Mac platform.
let me remind everyone that IBM had 2 customers for their chip business: Apple and IBM. Intel on the other hand, has lots of customers.
So what if Intel is opening a store in Timbuktu. it may not have anyting to do with MAC.
Metropolitan Phoenix (includes Chandler) will within days be the 5th largest city in the US. Intel’s Fab32 will have a very limited effect on water usuage. The 60,000+ homes built yearly on the otherhand will have a huge effect on the water table. Not to mention the concreting and asphalting over of the desert which has raised the Phoenix Metro nightly temperature 10+ degrees over that past decade. That’s why 20+ people have died from the heat in Phoenix last week. Water isn’t the problem. Home builders and real estate is.
Geeez, Intel should have bought that Micron plant that is located between SLC and Provo up in UT. It’s been sitting empty since it was built years ago when Micron desided not to use it after they built it. It’s right next to the mountains where there’s lots of water, and the summers aren’t blisteringly hot. Go figure.