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Wouldn’t the us government step in if intel was bombed in Israel ?

Consider the indirect risks as well:

- A significant fraction of your workforce are reservists who might disappear for months with little notice.

- Potential trade disruption due to Israel's highly controversial actions in Gaza (eg. Turkey halting all trade with Israel).

- Shipping disruption and increased cost due to Houthi attacks.

- Potential sanctions or BDS campaigns, like South Africa.

- Difficult to convince international employees to relocate to a conflict zone.

Intel Israel has never missed a wafer, despite all of the above

What does “missed a wafer” mean?

Chips come on wafers. Wafers come in lots. To miss a wafer is to deliver a wafer later than promised, delaying the lot. Intel Israel has never delivered a wafer late.

Would it matter? There's no response that will magically rebuild a fab overnight. Better to build it somewhere it's unlikely to be bombed in the first place.

Yeah...so lets put our crown fab in a desert that is slowly being reclaimed by the planet.

The entire fertile crescent is a desert that is being reclaimed by the planet. I don't see how Israel is in any better of a position, there: despite old narratives to the contrary, desertification is not any less of a problem in Israel than in other deserts, and as global warming continues there is growing evidence that in fact anti-desertification efforts in Israel are backfiring. Given the political situation, it's more likely that desertification can be obviated for the purposes of a fab in an American desert than in really any other in the world.

Was talking about Arizona seeing as how their top fab is being built there and things like this are happening:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/arizona-water-rio-verd...

But yes Dubai possibly, Israel, and the like are also goners long term.

>reclaimed by the planet

you mean the desert was taken away from the planet and the planet is claiming it back? where will it go?

We are all dirt that emerged from the planet. Sooner or later (probably sooner) the planet takes back what belongs to it.

[1]:https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/arizona-water-rio-verd...

Are you saying there are things that planet has that do not belong to it?

No I am saying we are all dirt that emerged from the planet. Sooner or later (probably sooner) the planet takes back what belongs to it.

But, we ARE the planet. It is arrogant to visualize ourselves and what we create as something external to the planet.

You are agreeing with me. As dirt that emerged from the planet, we are a subset of the entire planet and thus are subject to its whims.

We agree, indeed

In a way different than they are now? Or do you mean literally put troops on the ground there to protect an offshore branch of a US multinational corporation?

You are right, and also Israel as a region is still highly unstable. Do you want to travel there today? I'll pass, thanks :)

100% would go back today.

Drove through Be'er Sheva in 2019 while Hamas was sending rockets (earlier the same day I was there, not at exactly the same time) and would go back again without hesitation.

You should go back often.

The tourism industry is effectively dead [1]. If your visit - even at the risk of losing a limb or death - can feed a single Israeli for a day, you must visit.

1. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240208-gaza-war-para...

This article makes me happy :)

I'm flying to Israel after shavuot, this Thursday. I'll feel much safer in Israel than I do in the United States.

Cool, that's your opinion (weirldly). Haven't seen many rockets landing in the USA or any missile defense systems needing deployed. Get a grip.

The US govt has already stepped in

During the attack on Haifa in the 2000s an intel site was hit.

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