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Apple joins Intel at CMU
Apple, which joined with Intel in June to announce a precedent-setting deal for Intel's microprocessors to power Apple's Macintosh computers, plans to open a research facility at CMU's Collaborative Innovation Center, Gov. Ed Rendell announced Monday. The Apple facility combined with other tenants at the center is expected to create at least 200 new jobs.
The Apple facility will share the top floor of the four-story building with Intel's existing Intel Research Pittsburgh unit, a research laboratory that employs 17 people.
The 128,000-square-foot building, constructed with the help of $8 million in state funds, opened in March in the Junction Hollow section of Oakland, but it already is nearly full with several hundred working there, said Mark Kamlet, CMU's provost, following a news conference.
That means CMU and partners in the project, including the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, may soon pursue construction of a companion building in Junction Hollow, Kalmet said.
Both the new and proposed buildings are the heart of a state-approved Keystone Innovation Zone in parts of Oakland and several other Pittsburgh neighborhoods. The zone allows companies and universities to tap $32 million in state funds to spur business creation and innovation around the schools.
In the meantime, the school also is moving forward with plans to demolish several buildings on campus beginning late this year to prepare for construction of the Gates Center for Computer Science, a $50 million to $60 million facility whose funding includes a $20 million grant announced late last year by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Construction of the 150,000-square-foot facility could begin next spring, Kalmet said.
Plans are for researchers from Apple and Intel in the new building to discuss the possibility of cooperating or working on joint projects, said Todd C. Mowry, director of the Intel facility.
Other tenants housed there include the Carnegie Mellon Cylab, a major center for cybersecurity-related research, which employs 140 people.
Also, 130 people work with the federally funded Software Engineering Institute's Network Systems Survivability program, including the CERT center, which works with federal law enforcement and defense agencies to protect computer networks against hackers, viruses and worms.
Another tenant is the Korean Information Security Agency, a research division of the South Korean information technology ministry and a CyLab partner.
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