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		slowcpu on July 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All NeXT Inc.'s Plant Lacks Is Orders (1990) Recent Intel Fabrication Locations: Fab 24 Leixlip, Ireland Fab 28 Kiryat Gat, Israel Fab 68 Dalian, China Fab 42 Chandler, Arizona, USA -------------------------------------- Recent Intel Assembly Sites: Heredia, Costa Rica Chengdu, China Kulim, Malaysia Penang, Malaysia Saigon, Vietnam Chandler, Arizona

foobarbazoo on July 6, 2011 [–]

Most of that is almost certainly, in part, for tax related reasons. Intel is profitable; profitable US companies want to keep those profits outside the US (see: Google).

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