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  • sharath.naik - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    Why in Israel? an not in US? isn't intel a US company?
  • jeremyshaw - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    It's already expanding in the US, lol. Either way, they have a large R&D office in Israel that likely benefits from having close access to a fab. As TSMC learned, connecting those things to the internet is beyond stupid (before anyone claims otherwise, multiple TSMC fabs across the island were affected. Either TSMC stupidly mass deployed an untested "3rd party vendor upgrade" across all of its fabs at once, or they were networked together across the internet. Since even I don't believe TSMC was stupid enough to do the former, it really only leaves the latter).
  • thesavvymage - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    Can't have everything in one place when youre a company as big as Intel, you need to diversify for risk. They also have multiple fabs in the USA (Oregon, Arizona) and Ireland.
  • HStewart - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    It could have some of latest 14nm - but probably meant for production of 10nm production.
    Also keep in mind Intel sells products other than CPU's
  • HStewart - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    That was for down below, well Israel has a lot of smart people in there - and it better than China or Korea
  • sheh - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    A similar discussion earlier this month:
    https://www.anandtech.com/comments/13731/intel-to-...
  • shompa - Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - link

    1) The home country/ethnic background if Intel is Israeli. If you look at history, they are usually more loyal to their home country than the USA/or any of the other 209 countries. 2) Intel's CEO said Intel is an Isreali company. source https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Intel-CEO-We-thi... The funny thing is that its the same fab that failed at 10nm so they are rewarded för failure.
  • shabby - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    This fab will build 14nm+++?
  • eastcoast_pete - Saturday, January 5, 2019 - link

    Or, with a little help from Intel's marketing people, 14nm++++++ (and counting). Basically, another "+" for every year that EUV will be late.
  • jgraham11 - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    Funny this investment is ultimately being paid for by the US/Canadian/other countries who give Israel foreign aid in the Billions of dollars per year... Just so that they can tax Intel less it would seem...
  • HStewart - Friday, December 28, 2018 - link

    Israel is not the problem - China is much bigger

    https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-m...
  • sonny73n - Saturday, December 29, 2018 - link

    The topic is about Israel, not China. You must be from Israel because when someone point their fingers at you, you’ll point at someone else.

    US aid to Israel is $3.8 billions annually. I don’t see why my tax dollars have to go to that rich country while there’s many poor here.
  • JKflipflop98 - Saturday, December 29, 2018 - link

    I don't see why my tax dollars have to feed the biggest war machine on Earth instead of funding space exploration. You don't get to pick where your tax dollars go, Bertha.
  • Oxford Guy - Sunday, December 30, 2018 - link

    "I don’t see why my tax dollars have to go to that rich country while there’s many poor here."

    Because religion sells business.
  • jostrow1502 - Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - link

    So much ignorance in this thread. Israel is one of the most advanced countries when it comes to Engineering. Ever hear of the Technion? Israeli innovation is world class. That's why Intel wants a Fab there- so they can hire even more Israeli's. Much of Intel's cpu leaps forward were engineered by israeli graduates. Our tax money being sent there is a different issue altogether, and has nothing to do with this topic.
  • Oxford Guy - Friday, January 4, 2019 - link

    "Our tax money being sent there is a different issue altogether, and has nothing to do with this topic."

    Wrong. That money doesn't vanish into thin air nor does technological innovation and development come from thin air.

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