Intel to open technology centre in Gaza

[Tom Joad]

MESA, Ariz. — Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, is planning to build the first information technology education centre in the volatile Gaza Strip.

The Intel Information Technology Center of Excellence is intended to provide IT training to Palestinians and stimulate development of high-tech industry in an area where half the labour force is unemployed. The center is being developed in conjunction with Washington, D.C.-based American Near East Refugee Aid and the Islamic University of Gaza.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060221.gtintelfeb21/BNStory/Technology/home

[Coastie for Truth]

1. BUT ... the fab "rumored" to go into the ME

has gone to Ho Chi Minh City -- neither Palestine nor Israel.

[RDU Socialist]

4. Your news is wrong

What is being built in Vietnam isn't what Intel is funding in Gaza. Intel simply provided some money (a million dollars) for a charitable organization to build a tech center in the University. Because Intel fronted a lot of the venture capital for this, the center is being named for the company, but the center itself is seperate from the company.

Your pronouncements on the effects of divestment are incorrect.

[Coastie for Truth]

5. What is going into Gaza is a training center.

What is going into Ho Chi Minh City is

Thu Feb 23, 12:55 AM ET (From AFP)

HANOI (AFP) - The world's largest chipmaker Intel has received a license from the Vietnamese government to build a chip plant worth 605 million dollars in southern Ho Chi Minh City, official sources said.

According to recent reports in the state media, the plant will cover 46.7 hectares (115 acres) and employ 2,000 local workers, providing a massive boost to Vietnam's IT industry.

"We (have) agreed to give them the license already," an official at the Ministry of Planning and Investment told AFP.

The American company in the southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City declined comment but said a press release would be issued in the next few days.

What is going into Gaza is a school.

What is going into Ho Chi Minh city is a factory as described in Fundamentals of Semiconductor Fabrication by Simon Sze et al. where they do photolithography and etching and plating and epitaxy and use VHDL and Veralog and Suprem (no "e").

[Englander]

7. Link, please?

Can you provide *some* actual* evidence that claim is any other than a
blatant attempt to talk about something other than the op?

**

[Englander]

13. Thought not. n/t

[Wordie]

2. Such good news! (...it was about time for some)

Here's more from InfoWeek on the story, which said it is the result of a partnership between Intel and American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA):

Representatives of both organizations confirmed plans for the groundbreaking during interviews Tuesday. The center, planned for the Islamic University of Gaza, will be the fourth of its kind in the Middle East and is part of broader and separate Intel and ANERA Middle East initiatives.

ANERA formed 37 years ago to provide job, health, education and emergency war relief opportunities in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon. The nonprofit group partnered with Intel to open a similar center at Al Quds University in Jerusalem in 2004. Since then, more than 1,000 men and women have trained there.

The latest center will be the first of its kind in Gaza and should be completed by next year, according to representatives from ANERA and Intel. A Gaza pilot program, established in 1999 raised the number of residents trained in Java, Oracle and Microsoft from seven to 66. Now, several of those who completed the pilot program are teaching others.

"It's going to create jobs internally, whereas a lot of employment previously, a lot of the laborers, had relied on Israel," Loucks said.

For Intel's part, the $1 million center is a portion of a larger strategy. Intel's Digital Transformation Initiative for the Middle East has set aside $50 million in capital funds, established scholarships and backed training in countries throughout the region. The semiconductor company's program reaches Turkey, Egypt, North Africa, Jordan and beyond. The main goals are to encourage entrepreneurship, education, digital accessibility and technical competencies.

http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180206230&subSection=Global

The article also said that ANERA's Director of Communications, Adrian Loucks, mentioned that the center will create jobs for Palestinians within Gaza, rather than the Palestinians needing to rely on Israel for employment.

[Coastie for Truth]

3. This is training for entry level PROGRAMMING jobs

The semi-conductor fab went to VietNam, - still a very good start.

[Wordie]

6. Neither I nor the OP said anything about semi-conductors. Where did that

come from?

[Englander]

8. The usual place, most likely.

I think Uncle Leon provided the info.
It's more faith-based info, with a hefty dose of truthiness.

;)

[Coastie for Truth]

9. From here

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2127406

and it is not "hijacking the thread" or "look over here."

[Wordie]

10. Can you explain why that's another link about Intel's Vietnam plans?

This thread was about the new Palestinian Intel TRAINING center, not semiconductor production. If there really is a relationship between the two, I'd like to see it referenced with a link. Could you please provide one?

[Coastie for Truth]

11. I'll show you the link between computer usage and computer chips

1. and then

2.

I would really like to show you the tie-in between computer usage and chip volumes, and between new appliations and chip volumes. That's what makes this place go.

PM me - my treat (once you get out here to the Valley)

[Wordie]

12. Not the question. Do you have a link??? I'd like to read it. eom