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Intel Discloses Plans to Spend $5 Billion on Fab 28 Expansion in Israel
Intel and two Israeli ministries this week announced that the chip giant plans to invest $5 billion in its Kiryat Gat fab complex – Fab 28 – through 2020. Under the plan, Intel is expected to buy various products from local suppliers and hire additional personnel. In return, Israel will provide the processor maker a tax rebate and a government grant. Furthermore, Intel will receive another grant if it upgrades its manufacturing in Israel further.
Under the terms of the investment plan, Intel will invest $5 billion (NIS 18 billion) in its Kiryat Gat ventures until 2020. The chip giant is expected to buy $838 million (NIS 3 billion) worth of local goods and add 250 people to its workforce, reports The Times of Israel citing the Finance Ministry. If the plan is approved by the Israeli authorities, Intel will get a 5% tax rebate till 2027, as well as a $195.5 million (NIS 700 million) government grant. Additionally, if Intel decides to "significantly upgrade" its fab "technologically", the company will get another $195.5 million grant.
Intel's first "10nm" CPU will be the i3-8121U, a dual-core part which will be featured in the Lenovo Ideapad 330. Due to low yields on the "10nm" process, a few Cannon Lake CPUs will be released in 2018 alongside "14nm" Whiskey Lake. Both microarchitectures are considered to be "8th-generation" (hence the '8' in "i3-8121U").
Also at CTech.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @04:23PM (7 children)
"What was missing in other countries that only Israel offers?"
It's all about power and control (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abusive_power_and_control).
They obviously took over the board room of Intel decades ago. Now it's about shifting control over production away from the United States and to the Middle East, where the technology can be controlled and, if necessary, withheld.
Assuming the US military relies upon Intel this will give them power and control over an asset that the military depends upon.
I repeat, it's all about power and control.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:08PM (6 children)
Strange thought experiment or sci fi plot: The idea of political censorship on the internet seemed pretty far fetched in the early 90s, now its "normal" for social media to be single party and everything opposed to the single party is "hate speech" and censored. Given that background, how about a microprocessor EULA that states only progressive democrats and non-asian minorities are permitted to use this CPU for slavery reparations or whatever BS. Deplatforming at the processor level. Imagine if every Trump voter's house thermostat stopped working because of a hate crime EULA violation of the processor itself, or pacemakers that shut down if discovered to be implanted in a white person.
(Score: 3, Touché) by ilPapa on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:16PM (1 child)
Also, subject of today's Alex Jones youtube video.
You are still welcome on my lawn.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 21 2018, @07:52PM
Familiar with the dude, sounds like something he'd be into, but not intentional plagiarism.
Alex Jones gets no heat from "the establishment" because all his premises are wrong regardless how much free thinking creative ideas he proposes within his narrow walls. He's basically "viewers who haven't read any Ayn Rand particularly anything about 'check your premises' as a business model" and the new right is, with much handwaving, an experiment along the lines of checking some of those premises and seeing if the worldview fits reality better... which it does...
(Score: 5, Interesting) by fritsd on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:54PM (3 children)
It's an interesting idea, but you can't do that in practice, because if you don't have clear written rules that everyone can agree on, then you need a person as gatekeeper to determine which projects are allowed and which not.
And a person is prone to persuasion (bribes, blackmail).
I read a discussion about that years ago, when the FSF were talking about their GPLv3, why their GPL is incompatible with clauses like: "cannot be used in country X" or "cannot be used by wankers".
(Mind you, because it was years ago, maybe I remember it wrong)
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday May 21 2018, @07:54PM
So, entryist blue haired cat lady in training SJW activists on twitter, right? That seems to be how FOSS gate keeping works now.
The GPL is really not very progressive at all, in a modern sense of progressive.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 22 2018, @01:10PM (1 child)
Looks like your memory serves you well. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html [gnu.org]
(Score: 1) by fritsd on Tuesday May 22 2018, @03:34PM
Thanks for finding that!