If you were alive during the 90s or 2000s, you surely remember that tune. It’s the anthem of Intel, the world’s most dominant chip maker, or at least, they were. Since then, Intel has had a pretty rough fall from glory. In fact, today, Intel barely ranks in the top 10 when it comes to the world’s largest chip makers. They come in behind Nvidia, TSMC, Broadcom, Samsung, ASML, AMD, Qualcomm, Applied Materials, and Texas Instruments.And when you contextualize this with Nvidia’s performance, things
  • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    123·
    6 months ago

    Intel is an American company.

    If you’re bothered by Israeli involvement you should avoid all the companies in that list, including AMD, as they are all invested in Israel and have Israeli teams.
    Even large Chinese tech companies like Xiaomi, which has an R&D center in Israel, are invested in Israel.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      6 months ago

      Yeah and TikTok is a Singaporean company and has nothing to do with China.

      There might be a reason why LTT videos of Intel tours go to israel. And why Intel is spending 25 Billion on building a chip factory in israel during the height of the israeli Genocide in Gaza.

      2023-12-23 Intel will build $25 billion chip factory in Israel’s ‘largest investment ever’

      The Israeli government and Intel confirmed plans to build a $25 billion chipmaking factory in the south of the country, an investment Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described as the biggest in Israel’s history.

      The American tech giant already employs 11,700 people in Israel and has invested more than $50 billion in the country over the last 50 years.

      Intel now wants to expand its existing chipmaking factory at Kiryat Gat — about 16 miles northeast of Gaza — undeterred by the October 7 attacks and the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. Reuters earlier reported the news.

      “Intel has chosen to approve an unprecedented investment of $25 billion and to establish its new factory right here in Israel,” Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich wrote in a post on X on Tuesday.

      Notice the praise from Netanyahu and Smotrich in there

      • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        102·
        6 months ago

        Tiktok is owned by ByteDance, which is headquartered in China and was founded by Chinese.
        Intel is headquartered in the USA and was founded by Americans.

        Intel is investing in Israel for the same reason other companies like Nvidia do (who just acquired another Israeli startup last month and has 7 R&D centers in Israel). Innovation and talent.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          38·
          6 months ago

          Buying a startup and building a new factory are entirely different.

          Intel is investing in israel because the board members and owners are israeli and they are ideologically motivated to support the Apartheid state.

          It does not take a genius to realize that making your biggest investment ever in an active war zone where WW3 is likely to pop off is not a great plan. It would be like Russia starting a chip factory in the Donbass.

          In any case the stock doesn’t fall without reason. And unlike AMD with Ryzen there does not seem to be a magical comeback plan for Intel that is paying off over time. ARC has failed to deliver.

          And if we wanna do semantics TikTok is not owned by China either

          • ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            Nvidia is also currently building their most powerful supercomputer in Israel. And the CEO has also mentioned the Israeli startup Mellanox (which they acquired for 7 billion USD) as an important part of Nvidia’s success.
            He also said “Israel is home to world-leading AI researchers and developers creating applications for the next wave of AI,” as recently as the end of last year.
            Considering that, their startup accelerator program with over 300 Israeli startups, and their 7 R&D centers in Israel (Intel has 4 facilities), I’d say that by your logic Nvidia is much more “pro-Israel” than Intel. And it’s number 1 in the OP’s article’s list.

            Don’t see any Israelis in the board members or owners. Them and the founders all seem to be American. I did see Bangladeshi-born and Malaysian-born Americans on the board.

            You’re doing semantics with yourself.
            I wrote that ByteDance is headquartered in China and was founded by Chinese. Nowhere did I write “owned by China”.