Milner - the current Professional Footballers' Association young player of the year - joins Yaya Toure, David Silva, Jerome Boateng, Aleksandar Kolarov and Mario Balotelli in moving to Eastlands this summer.
"We already have a functional link running in the lab, and we are aggressively moving to higher bandwidths, " said Mario Paniccia, director of Intel's Photonics Technology Lab.