€34m investment creates 100 jobs

TECHNOLOGY company Xilinx has plans to create 100 jobs here as part of a €34m investment to expand its research, development, and engineering operations at the company’s headquarters in Dublin and Cork.

As part of the expansion the company, which first established operations in Dublin in 1995, is looking to recruit 75 senior silicon and electronics engineering staff for its regional headquarters in Dublin and for its engineering centre in Cork.

An additional 25 workers will be hired across a broad range of business disciplines supporting the continued growth of the company in Ireland.

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Currently the company employs just over 300 people in Dublin and Cork.

The investment and recruitment will support the company’s research, development and engineering work for advanced technologies and products.

Senior vice president of Xilinx Kevin Cooney said: “This investment by Xilinx in Ireland will fuel advanced product development and research that will enable ever-more intelligent and efficient AI development and deployment.”

The news was welcomed by Business, Enterprise and Innovation Minister Frances Fitzgerald, who described it as “a great vote of confidence in Ireland and, in particular, in the attractive eco-system we have created for companies in the ICT sector”.