Intel Invests In America

I had to do a double take reading the excerpted article below. Intel is actually building new manufacturing facilities in the USA, and is upgrading existing facilities. Lots of American people will find work as a result.

This is an unusual notice as so many jobs are flowing or have already flowed out of the country. This move goes against the trend. Some are seeing it as a sign of life in the flat American employment scene.

We are all for it.

CS Monitor: Intel investment a big vote of confidence for US economy

In a big vote of confidence for the US economy, computer chipmaker Intel says it will hire 800 to 1,000 new workers in Oregon and Arizona as it spends up to $8 billion upgrading four factories and building one new one. All of that construction will create 6,000 to 8,000 hard hat positions, Intel estimates.


...three quarters of its microprocessors are made in the US.


One of the plants will be in greater Phoenix and the second facility will be outside of Portland.