Very interesting...

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I just wonder why Intel hasn't commented on it yet.

If it's out there for the whole world to know (supposing it's not a hoax), why not take part on the announcement?

Because there goes American jobs to a 3rd world country, instead of building the lives of American citizens it's doing just the opposite and strengthing China while American consumers pay for it. And when Wold War 3 breaks out China has our largest technology powerhouse company in its hands to do as it pleases.

Conspiracy? The US should not allow out companies to outsource outside the borders... we should not bring workers in either. Doesn't the American dream only belong to Americans? Not that other countries can't have a China dream of course, but why we would take away from our own country?

I like Intel less because of this. And don't bother bashing my opinion, I won't be back to read it

That's a really good question. Maybe they're trying to figure out how to tell their employees that their jobs will be outsourced.

I'm j/k, I know Intel does a lot of manufacturing in cheap labor Asian countries. However, the most important part (i.e., die production and R&D, not assembly) has typically been done in non-third world countries (Ireland, Israel, US). Is this Chinese fab more assembly, or are they starting to break the highly paid country model for chip production? If the market is really starting to turn into a commodity market, any US Intel fab based employee better be very scared for their job as I'm sure we'll start to see their jobs exported.

Maybe this is the true focus of the Chinese fab and Intel doesn't want to answer these hard questions yet. If this is really their intention, then I definitely would have less respect for Intel. But shareholders would love it.

Or they're just a little late. Isn't speculation fun?

Good, then. Here it goes:

This is the most retarded, dumb, stupid argument I ever heard. You sound just like a neo-nazi. This xenofobic position is something I believe you are proud of, right? I thought so.

If this was Intel's 1st plant outside America, you'd have a point there, but it ain't. It's a well known fact that there are plenty of fabs outside the US. The china fab would be just one more, and not even the most important one.

If guys like you are the kinda labour Intel is able to find in the US then it's totally explained why they and many others are building plants outside the US or having it OEM'd in Asia.

Call me xenophobic, but give me a good reason why North America should be funding the next World War? Do you really think that China is just going to sit there with it's overcrowded population and nuclear weapons doing nothing?

I think eventually it will get more expensive doing business else where, because we are becoming more and more a third world country. :?

how many wars has china started in the last 20years?

how many wars have the usa started in the last 20 years? ( i am not antiwar eather, i agree with going into iraq but that is not the point)

dont be so fucking stupid

how many wars has china started in the last 20years?

how many wars have the usa started in the last 20 years? ( i am not antiwar eather, i agree with going into iraq but that is not the point)

dont be so ****** stupid

Hmmm... and over 20 million people were executed in which country over the past 75 years?

Not that I agree with gallag's or HTPCGB comments - just food for thought.

This is no different than most things that go on in China. They don't import if you want to sell into the Chinese market you make it in China.

If you really want to curl your hair Westinghouse is selling them 4 nuclear power plants and transfering the technology for future construction.

That's ok though because the French are going to sell them 8 plants and transfer construction technology.

Here we go again. American propaganda skewing peoples opinions on another (suprise suprise) Communist country. My God is it so difficult to accept that some people have political ideals that don't adhear to the American Dream?

Which is even more annoying considering that China are changing their ways; you want it all overnight, but more people will die, be tortured and killed before they eventually become a democracy. I find it even more amusing that China don't actually have nuclear weapons - check the facts people - yet India do. They have over a billion people as well and a thriving ecenomy; they are not a problem for you though.

If Intel want to be a global company, they will have to do their work globally. Just because your being so patriotic and living like its still 1980, doesn't mean that Intel have to adhere to your ideals of a company that shouldn't deal with "the bad communists". Need I bring up vietnam? Been working fine there since you lot left.

China is here to stay. America is here to stay. Neither are stupid enough to have a nuclear war. There will not be a World War III unless some stupid protagonist starts it first.

America seems to think they can have their cake and eat it.

It's a CPU manufacturing plant, people. Not a weapons factory, not a transfer of state secrets, not the start of World War 3. It's one CPU company opening one god-damn factory. Get a grip.

No kidding. And if companies could only operate withing their country's boundaries, the entire world's economic growth would slow to a screeching halt.

Be careful, non-Americans, what you say about our country and our people when your own countries have problems of their own lest you sound like hypocrites (which you do).

Since when did China become a third-world country again? From the viewpoint of most countries, they are a superpower and one of the U.S.'s biggest trading partner. Not surpisingly, they also have the most Internet users.


AMD has there own foothold in China.

Eh? The worst comments on this thread have been from xenophobic Americans (or psuedo-Americans, who knows.) Post would have been better, imo, with just the first half.

China was last a "first-world" country in the 1800s, or ancient times, depending on what way you look at it. Generally, it is considered a third-world country now under development economics. It is certainly developing and industrialising, but the process is far from complete. Look beyond the size of its army and GDP.

For example, its HDI is 80th in the world, ranked equally with Armenia. This puts it behind such bastions of development as Kazakhstan, Lebanon and Libya. 10% of the over-15 population are functionally illiterate. 12% of the population were considered malnourished in 2002. Despite having the world's second highest GDP by PPP, per capita this falls to 80th worldwide. In 2001, 10% of the population were considered to be under the poverty line.

Does any of that sound like a first-world country?

I must admit I'm not too keen on putting anything like this in China. I don't like the vast amount of outsourcing to China, either.

Actually he´s not so neo. If you look at the words "National Socialist" you describe exactly what he said.

Your argument is quite single-sided and thus flawed. Turkeys HDI is worse than Chinas and i wouldn´t dare to call them a third world country. 12% of the US Population are considered to be below the poverty line. Does that mean the US is a 3rd world country too?
The amount of money Lebanon gets from the EU and other nations to help develop and rebuild makes me wonder why anyone over there is working at all...