Intel didn't become a world leader in the computer industry without taking some big steps.
Over the next decade or two, the microchip maker will transform 47-acres in Riverton into a campus of buildings for research and development.
If fully-developed, the company could employ 6 to eight-thousand people at the facility...many of them by the year 2000.
Edward Ekstrom/V.P. Intel: "OUR EMPLOYEES ARE GOING TO BE LIVING IN THAT COMMUNITY, SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THEY BECOME PART OF THAT COMMUNITY AND THAT CULTURE."
A year ago, Utah's Board of Business and Economic Development approved a 5-million dollar loan for Intel to lock up the company's interest on this site.
The company already has a plant in American Fork which employs 400 people....those workers will move to Riverton. Intel is the world's largest chip manufacturer and leader in computer components...employing around 65-thousand people.
Employees today fanned out in the community to help with clean-up projects at parks and painting fire hydrants.
Jonathon Montgomery/Intel Software Engineer: "IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE A GOOD CORPORATE CITIZEN BECAUSE WE LIVE IN THE SAME COMMUNITY."
The company expects to fill its workforce from students and faculty at the University of Utah and Brigham Young University, and says the quality of potential employees helped clinch their decision.
More On Intel
1998 marked Intel's 30th anniversary. The Company was founded in 1968
to build semiconductor memory products. It has been more than 25
years since Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor, making
technological history. The computer and Internet revolution that this
technology enabled has changed the world.
Today, Intel supplies the computing industry with the chips, boards,
systems and software that are the "ingredients" of computer
architecture. These products are used by industry members to create
advanced computing systems. Intel's mission is to be the preeminent
building block supplier to the connected computing industry worldwide.
Principal Products
Processor Products:
Microprocessors, also called central processing units (CPUs), are
frequently described as the "brain" of a computer because they control
the central processing of data in personal computers (PCs), servers,
workstations, and other computers. Intel offers microprocessors
optimized for each segment of the computing market:
The Pentium® II Xeon™ processor for mid- to high-end servers
and workstations
The Pentium® II processor for entry-level servers and
workstations and performance desktop PCs
The Intel® Celeron™ processor for value PC desktop systems
The mobile Pentium® II processor for value PC desktop systems
Motherboards combine Intel microprocessors and chipsets to form the
basic subsystem of a PC or server.
Computing Enhancement Products:
Chipsets perform essential logic functions surrounding the CPU
in computers based on Intel architecture processors.
Flash memory provides easily reprogrammable memory for
computers, mobile phones and many other products. Flash
memory has the advantage of retaining data when the unit's power
is turned off.
Embedded control chips are designed to perform specific
functions in products such as automobile engine and braking
systems, hard disk drives, laser printers, input/output control
modules, cellular phones and home appliances.
Network Communications Products:
These products enhance the capabilities of PC systems and
networks, and are sold through reseller, retail and original
equipment manufacturer ("OEM") channels.
Additional Information:
Original Announcement Story
Intel Web Page
