We visited and had a very informative presentation on Intel’s Ireland operations. The presenter was very impressive and certainly had a very thorough and technical grasps of all things going on at the facility and within the Intel company. We had an opportunity to visit the area that Intel chips are manufactured from silicon. The manufacturing process is quite intense with many processes and is highly automated with very expensive manufacturing equipment, and use of robotic equipment hanging from the ceiling to mobilize the chips being manufactured to the next stage in the process. We saw very few people working with the manufacturing facility. The manufacturing plants operates around the clock producing millions of chips that are shipped all over the world. The operations were very efficient and helped demonstrate Intel's market-share and world leadership position as well as its continued investments in continuos improvement that will make it hard for new competitive threats to compete with Intel in the future.Source: Intel Ireland
http://www.intel.com/corporate/europe/emea/irl/intel/index.htm?iid=IRLSHORT+Lisbon&
