In Ireland, manufacturing facilities in Limerick and Shannon will remain Cabletron-owned, but the company promised it will soon be "leveraging Celestica's expertise in materials procurement and manufacturing efficiencies".
The company will outsource production of its desktops, mobile products and servers to Flextronics - a Singapore-based high-tech manufacturing firm - but switch production will move to Ireland according to a report on newswire Bloomberg.com has not...
US operations will also be hit by the restructuring with 15 per cent of its workforce to go after the company announced it will shut call centres in four states as well as one of its manufacturing plants.
There are similar set-ups at the Dell facilities in Nashville, Ireland (Limerick), Malaysia (Penang), China (Xiamen) and Brazil (Eldorado do Sul) but unlike other companies, Intel say, these are not 'copy exact', allowing for local differences.
Ian McNuff, managing director, UK and Ireland, Sitel, said: "I suspect there's not one boardroom in the UK that isn't discussing offshoring. Many offshoring projects do go to that country - which guarantees, among other things, an educated and...
Intel manufactures its chips in plants located in Ireland, Israel and the United States, stable countries with fairly extensive electrical and utility systems - key factors chip companies examine in determining where to build a semiconductor...