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Intel Israel עריכה

Intel operates in Israel since the founding of the Israeli branch in 1974 by Dov Frohman[1]. The first branch was in a small office at Haifa, in a place called "Shemen Beach". This branch was Intel’s first design and development center outside the United States[2]. In the late 70 's and early 80 's of the 20th century, the company decided to examine the possibility of establishing a semiconductors plant in Jerusalem by a team led by Dov Frohman. The team's efforts received support from the CEO of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Abraham Ashri, and by the Investment Authority, led by Rafi Benvenisti. The investment Authority and the Israel Government offered an incentives package for investments which was the standard package accepted at the time in Jerusalem. In addition, the company received funding for training Israeli employees for the Jerusalem industry at the company in the United States. The company established the plant in Jerusalem in 1981. Nowadays, Intel has development centers in Haifa, Jerusalem, Petah Tikva (based on DSCP and Anvara companies, purchased by Intel) and Yakum [3]. The company also has manufacturing plants in Jerusalem (iDPj) and Kiryat Gat (Fab 28) which create and develop microprocessors and communication products. Company plants won grants and benefits in accordance with the Law for Encouragement of Capital Investments (600$ million). Intel invested in the Israel plant over $1 billion[4]. In 2008, Intel closed its development center in Yokneam Illit (on the basis of the Uffles company acquired by Intel)[5].

Intel's advanced technologies have been developed in Israel[6]. The Israel Center is considered an important and integral part of Intel. The Israel Center contributed to successful competition between Intel and AMD, especially with the Core 2 processors. Among the major products developed by the Center are included the 8088 processor (the brain of the first PC)[7], Pentium processor with MMX component for vector processor, the first Fast Ethernet communications component of Intel[8] and other processors, including Centrino (developed under the names "Dotan" and "Banias"), "Yona" and "Marom" – architecture of multi-core processors. In addition, Intel Israel developed mobile processors for cellular and personal digital assistant: "Manitoba", "Hermon" and "Tavor". In 2009, the "Sandy Bridge" processor was developed at Intel Israel, which produced 32 nm technology, with one of its innovations that is a combination GPU next to CPU.

Intel employs about 7,782 employees (as of the end of 2011), and more subcontractors are employed to support the extensive infrastructure[9]. The scope of procurement from Israeli companies is in the amount of hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Intel Israel's exports stood at $1.4 million dollars in 2008, close to $2 billion in the initial three quarters of 2009 and $2.2 billion in 2011[10]. Intel is considered to be one of the most profitable companies in Israel. It also ranked at the top of businesses with great social responsibility, for its contribution to Israeli society. In 2012, Intel Israel won for the fifth time in a row in the title of "The best high-tech company to work at"[11] [12]. At 2011, Intel Israel won the Minister of Environment 2011 Award of Environmental Excellence[13]. The Intel plant in Jerusalem (Fab 8), was the first to produce a wafer for Intel outside the United States. Due to obsolescence, the plant closed in 2008, but after financial bonuses from the government, the factory was reopened in 2009, as a Die-Prep plant. At the end of 2010 Intel made history throughout the chip's world, by succeeding to produce at the industry in Kiryat Gat "Perfect Wafer", when 100 percents of the Wafer with utilization of 100 percent of the wafer[14].

Maxine Fassberg serves since 2007 as the company's CEO and the global Intel company vice president[15].

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Intel Israel עריכה

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