Intel to shut down last Silicon Valley 'fab' this year

SJ Mercury News via Semiconductor International ^ | January 19, 2008 Saturday | Mark Boslet

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Intel, a pillar of Silicon Valley's high-tech revolution and 40-year pioneer of the semiconductor business, is closing its last local chip plant later this year.

The plant closing reflects how the changing dynamics of the industry continue to push the development and production of semiconductors to other parts of the world.

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ABC - Anywhere But California

[mdefranc]

Is Arnold proud?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It also is building a manufacturing plant in China.

Sigh.

[skeeter]

There's a small commercial building off San Antonio Rd in Mt View (across the street from Sun Micro's old HQ) with a historical marker in front claiming that years ago the world's first commercially reproducable IC was fabricated inside.

Who knows - maybe one day the Santa Clara Valley will go back to growing prunes.

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[martin_fierro]

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I'm gonna need a new graphic!

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I'm gonna need a new graphic!

And at this rate, a new name for the ping list..

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And on another note, we just ceased operations on our start-up company.

[Hoplite]

With Nanosolar starting up production here, we can be Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide Valley.

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We? You’re in Silicon Valley?

(You hiring????)

[Cyber Liberty]

I might be wrong (it’s not my company), but their largest facility is in Arizona. U S of A.

[mysterio]

Looks like intel wants to utilize Chinese slave labor.

[Hoplite]

Well, I live in Silicon Valley, but I'm afraid I'm in no position to provide assistance.

Best of luck to ya.

[Freedom4US]

My dad went to school on the GI Bill in ‘47 or ‘48 - in those days they paid for everything, room and board too, no matter the school, didn’t matter. So dad went to a good, small midwestern college. While he wasn’t exactly friends, Bob Noyce went there and took a physics degree, prior to moving on to MIT, then Cali and Fairchild Semiconductor. (Intel) I found a great article archived in usenet if you search under “bob noyce bicycle” in Google, maybe nsfw. A blogger laments the bicycle helmet obsession and Cali and pondered whether the old school chip pioneers would wear a helmet.

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Thank you! I had ta ask...

[ßuddaßudd]

I'm always late to the threads...
Glad I work with analog ICs......... knock knock

[skeeter]

Can you imagine Noyce, Moore, or Shockley (or Amdahl, Hewlett or Packard) raising money for Al Gore?

[Yossarian]

Dittos to what Null and Void said....