Intel on a different kind of front line

1. An unintended consequence of building a design centre in an area of the world for which stability is a very fluid concept, Intel now has more than just AMD gunning after them. Intel’s Haifa design centre is within range of Hezbollah strikes, the most recent of which led to 8 Israeli deaths and 17 wounded at the local train depot. From the MacWorld article:

Responding to the Home Front Command’s orders, essential employees are working inside protected areas at Intel’s development center while others work from bomb shelters near their home. “The protective shelters in Haifa are equipped with wireless connections and all Intel employees have laptops, so that hasn’t affected work,� Bahar said.

2. How crazy would it be if you were the person responsible for planning and running a campus in a part of the world that carries such high risks? What would that meeting have been like? This might sound a little off-topic, but while many people complain about the high salaries senior business executives are paid (and they’re probably right about a lot of them), I’d want to get paid an awful lot to shoulder that sort of responsibility.

3. I wonder what working from a bomb shelter would be like?

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