Acquired in May 1998, the Hudson campus is a key contributor to a strong and growing manufacturing, research and development presence for Intel throughout the East Coast. Sitting atop a hill and featuring a breathtaking 10-mile view of the surrounding area, the 149-acre Hudson site includes 1.3 million square feet of building space, including a 95,000 square foot state-of-art semiconductor-manufacturing facility.
Hudson builds chip sets for Intel's mobile, desktop, and server markets using 0.13-micron process technology. The copper-based 0.13-micron process can build circuits so small that it would take roughly 1,000 of them to equal the thickness of a human hair. The Hudson site also builds some
Pentium® 4 microprocessors and some communications products.
In addition to its important manufacturing role, the Hudson site is the home of Intel's Massachusetts Development Center, which includes the following business groups:
- The Cellular and Handheld Group (CHG) designs hardware and software building blocks for makers of cell phones and handheld computing devices. Its engineers work with a variety of operating systems, can help manufacturers build multimedia capabilities into these devices, and offer them porting and performance optimization support.
- The Infrastructure Processor Division (IPD) develops intelligent microprocessor building blocks incorporated into networking equipment. This group has been directly involved with the IXP1200, IXP425, and the IXP2800 Network Processors, all key components in Intel's Internet Exchange Architecture.
- The Storage Components Division (SCD) provides industry-leading I/O processors based on Intel XScale® microarchitecture. It is a leading supplier of PCI, PCI-X, and PCI-Express* bridge components. SCD's mission is to be the preeminent building block supplier to the storage industry.
- The Massachusetts Microprocessor Design Center (MMDC), the largest engineering group on the Hudson campus, does microprocessor design and development for Intel's Enterprise Products Group. The MMDC is developing the next generation family of ItaniumŪ microprocessors for high end servers.
