Analog Devices Inc.’s latest expansion announcement is, for the second time in recent months, centered outside Massachusetts.
The Wilmington-headquartered company is making a more than $1 billion investment in expanding its semiconductor wafer fab facility in Beaverton, Oregon.
The company said its Beaverton site was built in 1978 and is the semiconductor company’s largest wafer fabrication facility by volume. Its products serve customers in industrial, automotive, communications, consumer and healthcare industries.
Analog Devices said the new investment will expand the facility’s cleanroom space to about 118,000 square feet and nearly double the internal manufacturing of products running on the 180-nanometer technology node — a semiconductor manufacturing process — and above. The capital will also be used for new tools to increase efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at the site.
The Wilmington company has about 950 employees in Oregon and said this expansion would create hundreds of new jobs in the state. The Beaverton facility will also host a workforce development training center with eight-week courses to train students on semiconductor equipment maintenance.
"By expanding ADI’s Beaverton facility, we are increasing our production capacity in critical industries, boosting domestic manufacturing in line with the vision of the CHIPS Act, and enhancing the global resiliency of ADI’s hybrid manufacturing model," Vincent Roche, Analog Devices’ CEO, said in a statement. "While our investment in Beaverton will facilitate these goals, they will be achieved through the incredible dedication and talent of ADI's existing workforce and further tapping into Oregon's strong talent pool."
Earlier this year, Analog Devices, one of Massachusetts’ largest public companies by revenue, announced it was building a new research & development and manufacturing facility in Limerick, Ireland. The $684 million facility is expected to support 600 new jobs at the company’s European regional headquarters.
Despite these investments outside the state, Analog Devices has said it’s still focused on investment and expansion" in Massachusetts. The company moved from Norwood to its new Wilmington headquarters after breaking ground in 2018, and opened an internal incubator in downtown Boston in 2017. Analog Devices has two facilities in Chelmsford and has been working with Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development on two large facility expansions for the company’s Chelmsford manufacturing site.
Margaret Quackenbush, a spokesperson for the state agency, previously confirmed to the Business Journal that Analog Devices was also part of the advisory council overseeing the coalition of organizations, that alongside the state and MassTech, submitted the CHIPS and Science Act proposal for funding through the U.S. Department of Defense earlier this year.
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