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Multinational tech company Intel has sold the former site of its Hudson manufacturing facility for $12 million to a company specializing in real estate redevelopment.

Marlborough company Wyebot has partnered with Intel Corp.’s Intel Connectivity Analytics program to help Wyebot offer new solutions for its wireless artificial intelligence-driven WiFi automation platform, which helps support WiFi  problems. 

Atlanta developer Portman Industrial has withdrawn a proposal to build a 1.2-million-square-foot warehouse in Hudson, following a lawsuit by its neighbors to stop the project.

Three neighbors of an Intel manufacturing facility in Hudson have filed a lawsuit to halt plans to construct a proposed 1.2-million-square-foot distribution warehouse on the property.

When Central Massachusetts companies look to fill software, programming or research jobs, they’re increasingly looking to foreign labor under an immigrant work program called H-1B.

Town officials are pleased that Intel Corp. remains a strong presence in Hudson after it halted manufacturing operations last year. The computer chip maker still has about 850 employees working in its Massachusetts Design Center, a research and development facility at 75 Reed Rd. But that doesn't mean the officials are not not curious to see what Intel will do with the land on which the vacant manufacturing facility rests. Manufacturing operations officially ceased in May after the company announced in 2013 that they would end, because the facility wasn't fit for production of today's chips.

After nearly a year of trying to sell its 1.3 million-square-foot Hudson campus with little luck, Intel Corp. has tapped a Philadelphia real estate firm to help push the property toward a sale.

News that Intel will halt manufacturing operations in Hudson after this year wasn't welcome — and it wasn't all that much of a surprise — but business and economic development leaders say it falls short of a blow to the local manufacturing landscape. In September, the computer chip maker announced that manufacturing would be phased out at the end of 2014, resulting in the loss of about 700 jobs in Hudson. Some of those employees have found work at other Intel locations elsewhere in the United States, according to Ann Hurd, a local spokeswoman for Intel. Research and development operations will continue at the Reed Road site, and Hurd said between 600 and 800 employees will remain.

Computer chip maker Intel will end its manufacturing operations in Hudson by the end of next year, a move that will result in the loss of about 700 jobs, the company said yesterday.