I think what LPT is doing is correct. Once the workforce is reduced. They have to come up with innovative ways to compensate for the change and hence driving up efficiency. It should happen for both fabs and non-fabs in short term, medium term, and long term, hence a continuous trend.
Intel’s Israeli fab in Kiryat Gat targeted in latest layoff round
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Interesting, the benchmarking of TSMC and Intel Foundry is not only node against node for the customer stakeholders, but also #people & #robots for the Wall Street stakeholders. Many business books / academic papers will be written the coming years about this Chips Battle.......
Regarding cultural change/transformation, I wonder if these analysts, mentioned above by Artificer60, are McKinsey's?
Peter Drucker’s famous observation that “culture eats strategy for breakfast” has never been more relevant.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tracylawrence/2025/01/26/company-culture-why-it-matters-more-than-ever-in-2025/
siliconbruh999
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They should have we are all talking how Taiwan is going to be taken over by China instead it looks like Israel fabs are at risk
.Also Intel Israel expansion is a mistake they should cancelled the planned investment.
Intel last big layoffs were in 2015-2016, 10 years ago. https://www.warntracker.com/company/intel#google_vignette
That affected OR and AZ, and since then, most layoffs have been in CA. There are no front-end fabs in CA.
The WARN Act only applies to the USA, so no help with Israel or Ireland.
Could we see the end of Intel foreign sites? Not anytime soon, I assume. Ireland is the first EUV HVM site.
But maybe Israel expansion was a bridge too far, and the existing fab 28 is old. This could be it for Kiryat Gat.
That affected OR and AZ, and since then, most layoffs have been in CA. There are no front-end fabs in CA.
The WARN Act only applies to the USA, so no help with Israel or Ireland.
Could we see the end of Intel foreign sites? Not anytime soon, I assume. Ireland is the first EUV HVM site.
But maybe Israel expansion was a bridge too far, and the existing fab 28 is old. This could be it for Kiryat Gat.
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SemiFunctional
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They do absolutely have bunkers.
There is a rumour that there is an iron dome to protect the intel site.
Hitting Intel would be the fastest way for Iran to get the US directly and overtly involved. I can’t imagine that would help what they’re trying to achieve, but war is sometimes crazy. Hope it does not happen.
SemiFunctional
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Absolutely, I have a lot of friends working in on and in that fab. Work is stressful enough under normal conditions, I can't imagine going in on a war footing.
Iran does seem to be fighting an economic war, they are targeting the port at Haifa. Though as you said hitting intel would definitely be considered an attack on 'US interests in the region.'