ISRAËL. Intel compte au total 14.000 salariés en Israël : 7.000 développeurs, 4.900 travailleurs de la production et 2.100 employés à Mobileye, Moovit et Habana Labs, que l’entreprise a acquis.
La société possède actuellement trois grands centres de développement situés à Haïfa, Petah Tikva et Jérusalem, et une usine de fabrication de puces à Kiryat Gat.
En 2022, Intel est dans une période d’investissements sans précédent dans son histoire, afin de devenir le champion occidental des semi-conducteurs. Il est, plus que jamais, le premier employeur privé d’Israël.REUTERS.
Tower Semiconductor a annoncé jeudi une hausse plus importante que prévu de son bénéfice trimestriel, quelques jours après qu’Intel Corp ait annoncé son intention d’acheter le fabricant de puces israélien.
Tower is one of the oldest companies in the technology sector in Israel, and far from being the most glamorous of them, and being far from what is known as the technological « ecosystem », plus its chips are not even manufactured with the latest technologies, but it is now reaping the fruits of the perfect chaos in the chip market.
There, for more than a year, Intel has been looking for ways to deal with soaring demand for processors for almost all of its areas of activity, on the one hand, and with supply chain disruptions and logistics bottlenecks on the other.
2021 could have been an amazing year for Intel, but logistical constraints and delays in moving to the production of the most advanced chips, that created a competitive gap with the competition, led to its revenue being stagnant last year. The current year’s forecast also does not talk about meteoric growth but mainly about continuing to face the fast Chinese competitors who are now ahead of the company whose name was once synonymous with the most up-to-date chips.
The acquisition of Tower is another significant move in the new strategy announced by Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s relatively new CEO who took office less than a year ago, of focusing on Intel’s traditional chipset.
In this context, several activities that are not defined as « core businesses » in Israel have already been closed, and at the same time, Intel has announced huge investments of $100 billion in the establishment of new plants.Tower will provide Intel with more significant production capacity and strengthen its position in some of the markets in which it is less active today.
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