PORTLAND — Intel said Thursday that it will invest $1.6 billion over the next 15 years on an assembly-and-test facility in the western Chinese city of Chengdu, the latest in a series of commitments the world’s largest chipmaker has made in the world’s largest electronics market.
China has been a difficult country for some global electronics companies because it carefully manages access to its market. Qualcomm, Microsoft, Google and Apple have all struggled for dependable access to the country.
Intel has long made China a priority, though, investing in manufacturing there to save on production costs and maintain ties to the country’s huge consumer market.