Intel: the chip company will spend $2 billion constructing an advanced wafer plant at Leixlip, Co Kildare, which will employ a further 1,000.
American Home Products, Wyeth Medica: the biotechnology firm plans a $1 billion investment to develop a campus at Grange Castle, Dublin.
IBM: computer-maker to locate e-business centre for Europe, Mid-East and Africa in Dublin. Also plans locating global procurement portal site in Dublin.
Teradyne: drug company to invest £50 million at technology campus in Cavan with 740 jobs.
Cardinal Health: drug group to build $100 million European manufacturing centre at Longford with 1,300 jobs.
Prudential Insurance: US firm plans software development centre employing 150 at Letterkenny, Co Donegal.
Microsoft: software group to base Internet strategy operations for Europe, Mid-East and Africa in the Republic.
More than one million square feet of Internet Data Centre space set up by 16 firms, including Global Centre/Exodus, AboveNet, WorldCom, World port and InterXion.
European centres established by Internet firms Breakaway Solutions, Globalnet, GoTo, AltaVista and Uniscape.
