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"Just because Intel is closing a shop doesn't mean that we're turning into Detroit here," said Bluestone.Intel said it plans to close the Hudson facility by the end of 2014 but hopes to soften the blow by trying to find another technology company that would buy the plant and continue making chips there.The company also operates a research and development facility in Hudson employing additional 850 workers. It will not be affected by the job cuts.

Home of former governor A. Paul Cellucci, Hudson is a former mill town that in the 19th century attracted waves of immigrants to work in its many shoe factories. In more recent years, it prospered as the early computer industry grew up in suburban Massachusetts around the old Digital Equipment Corp., based in nearby Maynard.

The Intel plant was built in 1994 by Digital in its waning days for $425 million to produce its highly touted Alpha chip, one of the now-defunct company's last-gasp efforts to keep up with a rapidly changing computer industry. Though more powerful than the best Intel processors of the era, Alpha failed to win converts among computer makers because it was incompatible with many common software programs.

The failure of the Alpha led to Digital's exit from the chipmaking business, and Digital sold the Hudson plant and related properties to Intel in 1997 for $700 million. Digital itself was acquired by Compaq a year later, ending a 40-year run as one of the most storied names in the computer industry.

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