Intel chooses Haifa 4 R&D or Az leaves Haifa, jinxed city enjoys surge in investment

[Az]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3221360,00.html

Intel's largest R&D center planned in Haifa


Computer chip giant Intel signed a giant deal with the Haifa Municipality and Matam Industrial park in southern Haifa to purchase 20 dunam (approximately 5 acres) of land for USD 5.8 million, where Intel will build, without government aid, its largest Research and Development center.


Intel is expected to double its center in Haifa to 40,000 square meters (approximately 12 acres) and add 1,500 more employees in addition
to the 2,000 employees already working there. Intel's investment could reach USD 20 million, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.


In the past year, India increased the pressure on Intel to relocate the company's R&D center to India. The Haifa Municipality put a lot of effort in dissuading Intel from leaving, offering the company a municipal property across from Intel's existing center. The two buildings will be joined by a bridge.


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India offered Intel many benefits so that the company would move there. Intel, however, chose Haifa over India.


Recently, Intel decided to abandon its older-generation Pentium processors and base the future computer line on the new-generation family of processors, the Pentium M, which is the result of Israeli design and development.


Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini recently announced in a computer developers conference held in San Francisco that the company has decided to move on to the new family of processors, all of which were designed and developed in Intel's R&D center in Haifa and in Kibbutz Yakum.



This would be the first time that Intel structures itself on processors developed outside the United States. Israel, therefore, is becoming one of Intel's most important R&D centers worldwide.



(02.26.06, 22:23)

take that, India.

Now, I am not connected seriously to Intel's research, but this is still kind of annoying, because this sort of stuff helps the local city economy - JUST AS I LEAVE.

[Zopperoni]

HA-HA!

[Sirotnikov]

Google to open R&D center in Israel

By LEAH KRAUSS
UPI Correspondent

BINYAMINA, Israel, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Internet search giant Google will open a research-and-development center in the northern Israeli city of Haifa -- its first R&D center in the Middle East, the company announced in a statement Tuesday.

The R&D center will open during the second quarter of 2006, the statement said.

"As a country renowned for its thriving economy and passion for new technologies, Israel is home to many outstanding computer scientists and engineers and Google is looking to establish long partnerships with institutes and universities," the statement said.

"Google is also continuing to look at other locations in Israel for future engineering centers," the company said.

Google formally announced its arrival in Israel Feb. 20 with the opening of an office headed by Meir Brand, but the search engine has been available in Hebrew for several years.

Brand has so far kept mum on the company's plans for Israel, except to say the company plans to tailor its Hebrew service more to the Israeli surfer, who according to the company is more educated, tech-savvy and search-engine dependent than his U.S. counterparts.

He promised in an interview Monday with the Israeli business newspaper Globes that the company would have a long future in Israel.

The company's co-founder Sergey Brin started hinted at an Israeli R&D center in late January.

The company appointed Dr. Yoelle Maarek, until now senior manager of the Information and Media Technologies department at IBM's Haifa research labs, to spearhead the project.

Maarek has 17 years of experience under her belt at IBM, where she was responsible for information management in the labs.

She also had a hand in developing the Juru search engine, which was developed entirely in the Haifa lab and later won a prize for precision, the Hebrew news Web site Ynet said.

"I am delighted that Yoelle is joining Google," said Alan Eustace, vice president of engineering, via the company statement.

"Her appointment demonstrates our commitment to product research and development, enhancing our international business operations in the Middle East and beyond. Israel's highly skilled engineering base makes it the ideal place to establish an R&D center."

Google currently runs R&D facilities in Tokyo; Zurich, Switzerland; Bangalore, India; New York; Kirkland, Wash.; Santa Monica, Calif.; and Mountain View, Calif.

The Google R&D center will join several other international Internet and computer companies with branches in Israel. Chip maker Intel has had a presence in Israel for over 30 years and recently announced the opening of an information-technology center at the Islamic University of Gaza.

Microsoft also has an Israeli branch in the city of Ra'anana near Tel Aviv.

[Asher]

Intel frequently opens things in the third world. It's cheaper.

[Az]

Does that mean we get to get all your jobs now?

[Asher]

Any job exported to Israel, India, or Kentucky isn't worth my time.

[Az]

Siro, have you decided on a career, yet? and are you staying in Haifa, after the army?

[Az]

Any job exported to Israel, India, or Kentucky isn't worth my time.

dude, aneeshm isn't online.

[Sirotnikov]

This has nothing to do with Haifa, but its still funny

McKosher, now with a new logo

McDonalds posts new blue-and-white logo on its kosher restaurants to clearly distinguish them from fast food chain's non-kosher branches
Shoshana Chen

Only once in McDonalds’ history has the franchise redesigned its logo: To comply with French law, which requires all signs on Paris’ fashionable Champs-Elysees boulevard to be in gold, the chain printed its sign with a golden background.

Now, McDonalds is offering a second redesign, this time for its Israeli restaurants, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday.


At two of the fast-food chain’s kosher branches in Tel Aviv, the standard logo has been replaced with a blue and white one, with “McDonalds” printed only in Hebrew, in white letters against a blue backdrop. The word “Kosher” is printed in English and Hebrew to the side of the restaurant name.


'Kosher locations will be posted by cash registers'


The two branches, one at the Tel Aviv towers and one at Tel Aviv University, were recently awarded a kashrut certificate after opting to kasher their kitchens and withdraw dairy products from their menus.


Of the 120 McDonalds restaurants in Israel, 19 of them have kashrut certificates, although all of the branches purchase only kosher-certified
ingredients.


Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, stands behind the initiative to alter the famous logo. “When I assumed my position 10 months ago and I had to sign kashrut certificates for two (McDonald’s) restaurants in Tel Aviv, I refused because my conscience wouldn’t let me,” Rabbi Lau says. “I was mainly concerned that tourists or adolescents who visit one kosher branch may jump to the conclusion that all McDonald’s branches in Israel are kosher.”


The branches with the new blue-and-white logos will act as a sub-branch of McDonald’s, says Omri Padan, McDonald's Israel franchisee. At all non-kosher branches of the restaurant, Padan said, blue-and-white signs listing kosher locations will be posted by the cash registers, to further avoid confusion.

[Az]

that's ****ing stupid.

and answer teh question, damn it.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Az
Siro, have you decided on a career, yet? and are you staying in Haifa, after the army?

I have 2 or more years of service left to decide ;-)

Most probably soemthing having to do with... computers

Meanwhile I'm staying in Haifa but it sucks. I hope to move to Tel Aviv at some point. Or at least closer to the center.

Ideally though, I would like to settle in a northern town or village.


Speaking of which, what are you doing now? I read you're done with Atuda??

[Az]

march 22 is BAKUM day. going to my assign unit at the 10th of April or so. ( some exams left )

[Sirotnikov]

done means you finished or you dropped out? I remember you badmouthing the whole thing...


where are you assigned?

[Az]

I finished. It still sucks, though, but I have some perspectives.

I was assigned to the Home Front.

It can be mindnumbingly boring, or interesting. I am not sure yet.

[VetLegion]

In my country there's lot of talk about attracting foreign investment, but we fail miserably. So I'm a little jealous

Btw. how much of Israel is within Katjusa range if seen from Lebanon or Gaza? I'm surprised you get any FDI at all.