AMD invests $135 million in expanding Xilinx operations in Ireland for advanced packaging.

AMD announced on Wednesday that it would invest up to $135 million over the course of four years in its Xilinx operations in Ireland, with the funding directed toward expanding research and development and engineering operations at its sites in Dublin and Cork. The investment will support the hiring of 290 highly skilled employees in R&D and engineering along with various supporting workers.

The funding will be dedicated to strategic research and development initiatives focused on next-generation AI, datacenter, networking, and 6G communications infrastructure—essentially the majority of markets served by Xilinx's adaptive computing solutions, such as FPGAs. Several Xilinx products, including the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC products, were developed in Europe.

The AMD Xilinx facility in Ireland was originally launched in 1994 and was the company's first dedicated location outside the United States. The site is dedicated to production, engineering, operational aid, and management. After AMD purchased Xilinx in 2022, the campus in Ireland became one of the company's largest research and development centers in Europe.

Ruth Cotter, senior vice president, Marketing, Communications and Human Resources at AMD, stated: "By further investing and expanding our presence in Dublin and Cork, we are committed to continuing to both drive innovation in Ireland and to support the European semiconductor ecosystem. Through this investment, our R&D teams in Ireland will design innovative high-performance and adaptive computing engines to accelerate data centre, networking, 6G communications and embedded solutions while taking a leadership position on artificial intelligence." She added: "From the cloud and PCs to communications and intelligent end points, AMD's high-performance and adaptive computing solutions play an increasingly larger role in shaping the future of computing today. For nearly three decades, Ireland has been a flagship European R&D centre developing adaptive computing solutions, drawing from a strong and highly-skilled workforce."