The reason why they try position themselves as separate is because they're the only profitable operation Intel has.
I acknowledge your conspiracy theory of financial fraud but I believe Israel's universities are better and their engineers , technicians, and scientists get the job done. Intel employees in Oregon won't be the only ones let go there will be teachers , professors as well as people cancelled because it's prohibitively expensive to support the status quo.
I didn't say anything about financial fraud or conspiracy theory. Odd that you would interpret my issue that way. I simply find it annoying how Intel Israel separates itself from the rest of Intel.
As for Israel being Intel's only profitable operation, how would you figure that? Intel reports financial results by business unit, not by country. Do you have access to unpublished information?
www.intc.com
Even in revenue, what Intel Israel is reporting here:
Last year the company’s sales jumped 21% but their workforce has remained similar to 2019 figures. “Success isn’t measured in workforce numbers,” says CEO Yaniv Garty
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The Israel "revenue" is internal transfer value from the output of the fabs in Kiryat Gat. Intel Israel does not have a separate sales force.
As for Israel's universities being better, meaning in this context that engineers graduate better educated, I don't know how to judge that, or even what universities they're being judged against. Do I think Technion is a great school? That's what I read. How it compares to other universities from the US and the rest of the world I don't really know. I can say, I have not seen a strongly positive correlation of superior contributions from engineers with degrees from any very highly rated schools (e.g. Technion, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, CalTech, Cambridge, MIT, etc). Early in my career as a hiring manager at various levels I expected to see a strong correlation. In practice I found the correlation less than satisfying. Great engineers often graduate from more modest schools.
Finally, in my opinion a large portion of Intel's problems stem from uncompetitive designs, especially in CPUs. Since Intel x86 CPU cores are developed in Israel, which the Israel teams brag about a lot, I'm not seeing any current evidence of superior design capabilities. I'm seeing a lack of competitiveness.