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Intel Foundry launch poses challenge for Israel operations

2 points| smoothjazz | 2 years ago |en.globes.co.il

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smoothjazz|2 years ago

It seems unthinkable that Intel would continue to invest in Israel. They should have never done it in the first place, and building a new fab would be at minimum a major PR disaster.

isthatafact|2 years ago

Intel CEO (2017): "We think of ourselves as an Israeli company as much as a US company"

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Intel-CEO-We-think-of-ours...

For me it is one of many reasons to avoid Intel products, but I am not sure why their upcoming fab in Israel will be a PR disaster -- Intel will simply focus their PR on their USA factories.

runarberg|2 years ago

What was the impact of IBM collaborating with the Nazis prior to and during World War 2. It is my understanding that there was very little to no negative impact on their business from the bad PR.

Perhaps this is just a calculated risk Intel is willing to embark on. And with the number of anti-boycott laws and policies in America and Western Europe, I’m not surprise they’d take that risk. After all, both Siemens and Chevron are on the BDS boycott list for the Eurasia interconnector, but are very minimally (if at all) effected. So little in fact that I’m expecting Siemens to land a huge deal with California in building the trainsets for their high speed rail network.