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Subject: [Marvelalumni] HLO (HD) campus sold
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Subject: [Marvelalumni] HLO (HD) campus sold
First the fab, now the campus:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/intel_dec_massachusetts_demolished/
Intel to sell Massachusetts R&D site, once home to its only New England fab
End of another era as former DEC facility faces demolition
Dylan Martin Thu 30 Jun 2022 // 00:00 UTC
As Intel gets ready to build fabs in Arizona and Ohio, the x86 giant is
planning to offload a 149-acre historic research and development site in
Massachusetts that was once home to the company's only chip
manufacturing plant in New England.
An Intel spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday to The Register it plans to
sell the property. The company expects to transfer the site to a new
owner, a real-estate developer, next summer, whereupon it'll be torn
down completely.
The site is located at 75 Reed Rd in Hudson, Massachusetts, between
Boston and Worcester. It has been home to more than 800 R&D employees,
according to Intel. The spokesperson told us the US giant will move its
Hudson employees to a facility it's leasing in Harvard, Massachusetts,
about 13 miles away.
Kristina Johnson, Hudson's director of planning and community
development, told us the buyer of Intel's Hudson property is
Atlanta-based real-estate developer Portman Industrial, which intends to
demolish the site's two office buildings and build a logistics warehouse
for an undisclosed company.
A site of historical significance
The Hudson site holds significance in the history of America's computer
industry as it was built by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1979, when
DEC and other tech companies based around Massachusetts' Route 128
corridor rivaled those in Silicon Valley.
DEC's Hudson site was home to two R&D buildings and one chip
manufacturing plant, where "it built the most sophisticated
microprocessors in the world" in the 1980s, as one former employee put it.
At its peak, DEC was once the world's second-largest computer maker,
after IBM, and it was Massachusetts' largest private-sector employer in
1989, according to a retrospective by the Boston Globe.
However, after making billions for years on minicomputers —
general-purpose computers that were cheaper than mainframes — DEC
fizzled out in the 1990s as minicomputers fell out of favor. In 1998
Compaq acquired DEC for $9 billion and then a few years later sold
itself to HP for $25 billion.
Intel gives DEC's fab a run
DEC's Hudson site eventually ended up in the hands of Intel as the
result of a legal settlement between the two over alleged patent
infringements.
Intel maintained the fab in Hudson for more than a decade, producing
200mm wafers for chipsets and other products, until it decided in 2013
to shut it down because the property wasn't "big enough" to accommodate
equipment to manufacture leading-edge chips.
The processor maker then spent a few years trying to sell the fab, but
after getting no interest, it demolished the plant in 2015.
Ever since then, the Hudson site has been home to R&D employees, who,
after mostly switching to remote work for a time during the pandemic,
will not call it home for much longer.
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https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/intel_dec_massachusetts_demolished/
Intel to sell Massachusetts R&D site, once home to its only New England fab
End of another era as former DEC facility faces demolition
Dylan Martin Thu 30 Jun 2022 // 00:00 UTC
As Intel gets ready to build fabs in Arizona and Ohio, the x86 giant is
planning to offload a 149-acre historic research and development site in
Massachusetts that was once home to the company's only chip
manufacturing plant in New England.
An Intel spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday to The Register it plans to
sell the property. The company expects to transfer the site to a new
owner, a real-estate developer, next summer, whereupon it'll be torn
down completely.
The site is located at 75 Reed Rd in Hudson, Massachusetts, between
Boston and Worcester. It has been home to more than 800 R&D employees,
according to Intel. The spokesperson told us the US giant will move its
Hudson employees to a facility it's leasing in Harvard, Massachusetts,
about 13 miles away.
Kristina Johnson, Hudson's director of planning and community
development, told us the buyer of Intel's Hudson property is
Atlanta-based real-estate developer Portman Industrial, which intends to
demolish the site's two office buildings and build a logistics warehouse
for an undisclosed company.
A site of historical significance
The Hudson site holds significance in the history of America's computer
industry as it was built by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1979, when
DEC and other tech companies based around Massachusetts' Route 128
corridor rivaled those in Silicon Valley.
DEC's Hudson site was home to two R&D buildings and one chip
manufacturing plant, where "it built the most sophisticated
microprocessors in the world" in the 1980s, as one former employee put it.
At its peak, DEC was once the world's second-largest computer maker,
after IBM, and it was Massachusetts' largest private-sector employer in
1989, according to a retrospective by the Boston Globe.
However, after making billions for years on minicomputers —
general-purpose computers that were cheaper than mainframes — DEC
fizzled out in the 1990s as minicomputers fell out of favor. In 1998
Compaq acquired DEC for $9 billion and then a few years later sold
itself to HP for $25 billion.
Intel gives DEC's fab a run
DEC's Hudson site eventually ended up in the hands of Intel as the
result of a legal settlement between the two over alleged patent
infringements.
Intel maintained the fab in Hudson for more than a decade, producing
200mm wafers for chipsets and other products, until it decided in 2013
to shut it down because the property wasn't "big enough" to accommodate
equipment to manufacture leading-edge chips.
The processor maker then spent a few years trying to sell the fab, but
after getting no interest, it demolished the plant in 2015.
Ever since then, the Hudson site has been home to R&D employees, who,
after mostly switching to remote work for a time during the pandemic,
will not call it home for much longer.
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