Intel established its first assembly and testing facility in China in Shanghai in 1996. Three factories there now employ 3,500 employees. It has nurtured a great number of knowledge workers in world-class chip assembly and test technology. India is Intel's largest non-manufacturing site outside the U.S. Its mission is to 'accelerate the adoption of computing and communication technologies' and operate a global high-tech center in Bangalore. In 2006 Intel announced that it will invest USD $1 billion in the largest single factory within the Intel network at the Saigon High Tech Park, the first investment of its kind by the semiconductor industry in Vietnam.