Intel to recruit 4,000 workers this year

Intel will be 4,000 workers in the United States, this year, primarily in product development, research and development, the company said Friday.

The company seeks to become "highly qualified employees, permanent", Intel CEO Paul Otellini said during a speech in Hillsboro, Oregon, where the President of the United States Barack Obama toured a factory the microprocessor. Intel currently has about 82,000 employees.

Obama is currently visiting the West Coast as part of an effort to promote innovation for maintaining U.S. competitiveness. Obama met with top leaders that IT companies, including Apple's CEO Steve Jobs and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg, as part of the tour.

"These new employees will focus on areas that extend the exploration of new materials to create even smaller transistors, products that we believe will transform the way that health and education are delivered, ' future technologies ' involving augmented reality and computer that can read minds, or at least to anticipate the needs," said Otellini.

Intel also announced that it would invest approximately $ 5 billion to build a chip factory in Chandler, Arizona. The plant will be dedicated to making chips for PC, consumer electronics and mobile devices, Intel said in a statement. Construction of the factory will begin in the middle of this year and should be completed in 2013, Intel said.

The commitment of $ 5 billion is in addition to Intel's investment of between $ 6 billion and $ 8 billion for the manufacture of new chip for PCs, smart phones, consumer electronics and devices, such as the company announced in October of last year. These funds will go towards the construction of a facility in Oregon and upgrading the factories to make chips using the new process of 22 nanometers. These chips would be faster and more power-efficient PC chips current society without using the 32 nm process.

Intel at the time said the investment of 6 billion to 8 billion dollars would help create about the construction of 6000 to 8000 in the United States during construction and finally would manufacture highly qualified and high wage 1000 jobs.