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Intel On A Building Spree

Posted by Hemos on from the building-for-the-future dept.

Anonymous Cowherd writes "Intel will build two new facilities - a new chip plant and a new wafer plant. The new chip plant will be built in Kiryat Gat, Israel, continuing Intel's 30 years operation in the country. Intel already owns several facilities in Israel, both for R&D and for manufacturing. Previous developments of Intel Israel are the 8088 processor, MMX and the Centrino mobile platform. The new wafer plant will be built in an existing facility at Chandler, Arizona, and will feature 45nm technology - 1/1,333th the width of a human hair. The technology is two generations ahead of the current 90nm. Intel's Arizona operation includes production of the Pentium processor family and related chipsets."

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  1. Frugality by bigwavejas · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why don't they just takeover IBM's facilities?

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  2. 1/1,333th by Dayze!Confused · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thirth? I believe this should be 1/1,333rd.

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    1. Re:1/1,333th by jrockway · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, they obviouly meant to write "1/1,337th".

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    2. Re:1/1,333th by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Not "thirth", but "thith"... as in the Star Wars epic "Revenge of the Thith"

    3. Re:1/1,333th by jrockway · · Score: 2, Funny

      > You mean they meant, one one leet-eth.

      Or maybe even one mili-leet-er.

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  3. How do the saudi's feel...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Seriously...

    If you buy a laptop in Saudi Arabia, do they pop it open to make sure that CPU/centrino chipset wasn't made in Israel?

    Conversely, do the Israelis install tags in their chips to make them easier to find? Maybe that way they can sink the next USS Liberty just a little faster.

  4. Now that's small.... by pyst-off · · Score: 1, Funny

    "1/1,333th the width of a human hair" Will the newly hired employees be able to find the plant?

  5. Uh huh by hobotron · · Score: 5, Funny


    "The technology is two generations ahead of the current 90nm."

     And it will take 2 generations to build.

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  6. Re:Ah, Science Journalism! by gardyloo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gosh. It would really smell like mole-asses then.

  7. Re:Oh, bloody great use of numbers by TERdON · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, the variance in at least the summmary is far greater than that. In several countries, 1,333 is understood as 1.333 and NOT 1333. Which makes for a huge variance (although only two actual values). (And BTW, why wasn't that 1.337???).

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  8. Chips, wafers by gunpowda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's the waffle factory? We need to know!

  9. New Intel business plan by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

    1) Build billion dollar fabs in places most likely to be bombed (e.g. Israel, Dublin, London)
    2) Wait for attack
    3) Collect billion dollar insurance settlements
    4) Profit!

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  10. Re:Ah, Science Journalism! by Phurd+Phlegm · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's like the insight given by the statement that a mole of marshmellows would cover the US 512 miles deep.
    Nice going. Now that someone's thought of a 512-mile deep mole made of marshmallows, that's what Gozer will return as.
  11. Re:Ah, Science Journalism! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You do have a day job right?

  12. Re:target (of) opportunity... by stimpleton · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...usually that would be *take* a settlement.

    Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week, at 7.00pm.

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  13. Re:Ah, Science Journalism! by gardyloo · · Score: 3, Funny

    although googling for 'mole' on image search (have safe search Off) brought up a really disgusting picture that i'll leave to the reader to find on their own...

          godda mn you prev poister -- thankfully I found a shar penedd pencill by touch with which to sta bout mine own eyes. and goddamn curioisity.