41) Israel, the Source for Human Resources
Intel’s Jerusalem factory in Israel
While living a long life as a journalist, I was given the opportunities to
see a lot of factories in various countries, and Israel is one of them. I
was invited for the opening of the development center of a large US semiconductor
equipment maker, which helped me visit several semiconductor manufacturers
in the country during that time.
Shown in the photograph is the Intel Jerusalem factory, one of the base factories
that produces their main microprocessor products. While the traces of the
Second Middle East War were seen everywhere, the factory towering above a
hill in Jerusalem was not damaged at all and the factory was operating as
usual.
The Intel Design Center in Haifa along the Mediterranean Sea is the company's
"brain" department with over 500 researchers. I met Dov Frohman,
the inventor of EPROM and vice president of the company. He told me eagerly,
"The invention is not a product of a single genius, and the most important
thing is to have a dream and to have doubts about things", and said that
his achievement was "an important invention for Intel to create a flow
of business after DRAM. "
I’ve heard that 20% of Nobel laureates for natural science are Jewish people.
Such a supply of human resources has become an attractive force, and, therefore,
electronics, computer software, bio-related companies continue to advance
into Israel.
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