AMD announced today that it plans to invest $135 million over four years to expand its business in Ireland.
AMD said Xilinx had worked with IDA Ireland on several occasions to drive semiconductor innovation in Ireland before it was acquired by AMD in 2022. In 2017, Xilinx announced a $40 million investment to expand its research, development and engineering operations and hire more than 100 new skilled employees.
Originally established in 1994, the Ireland site was Xilinx’s first dedicated site outside the US, with a focus on manufacturing, operations support, engineering and managed services. Since the acquisition of Xilinx, Ireland is now one of AMD’s largest R&D sites in Europe.
“From the cloud and PC to communications and intelligent endpoints, AMD’s high-performance and adaptive computing solutions are playing an increasing role in shaping the future of computing today,” said Ruth Cotter, senior vice president of marketing at AMD. “Ireland has been Europe’s flagship R&D hub for the development of adaptive computing solutions for ten years, with a strong and highly skilled workforce. By investing further and expanding our presence in Dublin and Cork, we are committed to continuing to drive Ireland’s Innovate and support the European semiconductor ecosystem. Through this investment, our R&D team in Ireland will design innovative high-performance and adaptive computing engines to accelerate the development of data centers, networks, 6G communications and embedded solutions, while at the same time in The field of artificial intelligence is leading the way.”
