25) Establishing Intel on a Lease
A scene in Intel’s factory in 1970, right after its establishment
The photograph above is a scene at the Intel factory at the
time of establishment in 1970, and during the guide, president Robert Noyce
said, "In Silicon Valley production equipment can be borrowed with a
lease." Today Intel rules as the world's largest semiconductor maker,
but at that time it was only a venture company with less than 100 employees.
The headquarters and factory building was also a rental factory of about 2,000
square meters. It was located on a single street which on the opposite side
was the Mountain View head office and factory of Fairchild (the building was
called "Rusty Building", as a rusted steel frame wrapped around
the entire building). "It was so close that you could hit it with a stone,"
Mr. Noyce explained, half-jokingly. (Provided by Intel, USA)
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