Last Friday, Magdeburg somehow managed to get ahead of Dresden in the race for billion-dollar semiconductor industry settlements in Germany. Shortly before the weekend, construction work began in Magdeburg to upgrade the transport infrastructure to connect the announced chip factories of the US company Intel in the planned technology park in the southwest of the city. Intel's plans involve investments of up to 30 billion euros, making it the largest single investment in Germany since the Second World War. The federal government wants to contribute ten billion euros. “The fact that things are finally getting started is a very important signal for the people around the state capital,” said Saxony-Anhalt's Infrastructure Minister Lydia Hüskens (FDP).
