Chip-maker Intel to invest $25 billion in Israhell

[yankeedoodle]

Intel to invest $25 billion in Israel enterprise – PM
US tech giant is reportedly the country's largest private employer and exporter
https://www.rt.com/business/578247-intel-invest-billions-israel-factory/

US chipmaking multinational Intel will pump $25 billion into a new factory in Israel, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said that the undertaking marks the country's largest-ever international investment.

The new production line in the Israeli city of Kiryat Gat is expected to open in 2027, to operate at least through 2035 and to provide jobs for thousands of people, the Finance Ministry said, adding that, under the deal, Intel will pay a 7.5% tax rate, up from the current 5%.

According to Intel, the company has become Israel's biggest privately held employer and exporter over its nearly five decades of operations in the country. The corporation is reportedly the leader of the local electronics and information sector.

Intel acquired Israel-based Mobileye Global, which is focused on developing and deploying advanced driver-assistance systems, for $15 billion in 2017. Last year, the US tech giant took Mobileye public.

According to Netanyahu, the deal for the facility in Kiryat Gat is "a tremendous achievement for the Israeli economy – 90 billion shekels – the largest investment ever by an international company in Israel."

Its Israel operations had "played a crucial role" in the company's global success, Intel said in a statement.

"Our intention to expand manufacturing capacity in Israel is driven by our commitment to meeting future manufacturing needs," the company added. "And we appreciate the continued support of the Israeli government."

[rmstock]

Was there ever a proper investigation into the crashes of several
Boeing 777's who were disappeared from the sky ?

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (a Boeing 777-200ER)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

Next there was suspicion that the disappeared (MH370/MAS370) had
resurfaced as the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (also a Boeing 777-200ER)
which crashed in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine with all
passengers on-board killed. Rumors go that all the passengers bodies had
already died months earlier because footage in Ukraine showed
decomposition of the bodies.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (also a Boeing 777-200ER)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

Why i mention this ? The new Boeing's all run on Intel CPU's which
a year later all turned out to be defective :

Sicherheitslücken in Intel-CPUs: Modifizierte Angriffe erfordern BIOS-Updates
CacheOut beziehungsweise L1D Eviction Sampling (L1DES) umgehen bisherige Sicherheits-Updates für Intel-Prozessoren.
https://www.heise.de/news/Sicherheitsluecken-in-Intel-CPUs-Modifizierte-Angriffe-erfordern-BIOS-Updates-4647081.html

My comment :

Intel will zu viel 
https://www.heise.de/forum/p-36016896/

Ich habe versucht den PoC shadow exploit leak.c code zu compilieren
(https://github.com/vusec/ridl) auf eine alte Linux Kiste, und da
springt heraus das nur neue gcc Compiler und neue Intel CPUs betroffen
sind. Erst asm soll __asm__ sein und meine alte gcc kennt natürlich die
option -mrtm nicht und lasse das weg :

(~/src/intel/ridl/exploits/shadow)$ gcc leak.c -std=c99 -Os -Wall -D_BSD_SOURCE -o leak
leak.c: Assembler messages:
leak.c:38: Error: no such instruction: `xbegin 1f'
leak.c:64: Error: no such instruction: `xend'
leak.c:92: Error: no such instruction: `xbegin 1f'
leak.c:111: Error: no such instruction: `xend'
leak.c:138: Error: no such instruction: `xbegin 1f'
leak.c:162: Error: no such instruction: `xend'
(~/src/intel/ridl/exploits/shadow)$

Assembler messages: no such instruction xbegin
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22395292/assembler-messages-no-such-instruction-xbegin

"You need to compile your code with the GCC option -mrtm."

"That affects whether the intrinsics are allowed in C/C++. This question
is about the assembler not even recognizing the asm instructions, which
doesn't depend on compiler options. (Use gcc -v to see the
compiler/assembler/linker command lines, and notice that -march=skylake
or -mrtm don't add extra options to the assembler command line).
– Peter Cordes Sep 30 '16 at 8:49
1

I meet with same problem, my gcc version is 5.3.0 on Redhat 7.1. The
error is "error: no such instruction, 'xbegin .L52'".
– egraldlo Oct 12 '16 at 8:14

TSX only works on Skylake and some late Broadwell CPUs. Intel had to
disable it with a microcode update for Haswell after discovering a bug:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_Extensions
– Peter Cordes Oct 12 '16 at 16:05 "

Fazit: Intel hat neue Features erfunden die schwere Sicherheit Krankheiten
mit sich bringen. Intel soll das sein lassen, und ein par
Jahre zuruck gehen auf das CPU Reißbrett.


Transactional Synchronization Extensions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_Synchronization_Extensions
  "Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX), also called
   Transactional Synchronization Extensions New Instructions (TSX-NI), is
   an extension to the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) that adds
   hardware transactional memory support, speeding up execution of
   multi-threaded software through lock elision. According to different
   benchmarks, TSX/TSX-NI can provide around 40% faster applications
   execution in specific workloads, and 4–5 times more database
   transactions per second (TPS).[1][2][3][4]

   TSX/TSX-NI was documented by Intel in February 2012, and debuted in
   June 2013 on selected Intel microprocessors based on the Haswell
   microarchitecture.[5][6][7] Haswell processors below 45xx as well as
   R-series and K-series (with unlocked multiplier) SKUs do not support
   TSX/TSX-NI.[8] In August 2014, Intel announced a bug in the TSX/TSX-NI
   implementation on current steppings of Haswell, Haswell-E, Haswell-EP
   and early Broadwell CPUs, which resulted in disabling the TSX/TSX-NI
   feature on affected CPUs via a microcode update.[9][10]

   In 2016, a side-channel timing attack was found by abusing the way
   TSX/TSX-NI handles transactional faults (i.e. page faults) in order to
   break kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR) on all major
   operating systems.[11] In 2021, Intel released a microcode update that
   disabled the TSX/TSX-NI feature on CPU generations from Skylake to
   Coffee Lake, as a mitigation for discovered security issues.[12]

   Support for TSX/TSX-NI emulation is provided as part of the Intel
   Software Development Emulator.[13] There is also experimental support
   for TSX/TSX-NI emulation in a QEMU fork.[14]
   [ ... ]"

[abduLMaria]

Was there ever a proper investigation into the crashes of several
Boeing 777's who were disappeared from the sky ?

I don't know about the 777, but I found the investigations in to the 737 Max crashes to be very interesting.

I find a direct CULTURAL link between the loss of 22x F22's in October 2018, and the 2 Mass-Murder 737 Max crashes.

The Jews merged Boeing & McDonald Douglas in 1998, and there was an IMMEDIATE culture change.

Before the merger, technical staff was encouraged to elevate concerns about product safety to management attention.

After the merger, that was discouraged.

20 years later, some of those same engineers sat in hearings and discussed what happened to 737 Max.


In August 1998, TRW laid off an employee named Bob.

He was a senior digital test engineer - assigned to F22.

Bob told Bart (senior digital design engineer) that the design was not testable.

To be clear about what "testable means", if you start up a computer and then start a game of Windows Solitaire, that is perfectly legit as a system test.  Not complicated, although the hardware is very complicated.

Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida is the home base for F22.

They had over 10 days to see Hurricane Michael coming.

Yet they were unable to move 22x F22's - because they couldn't fly.

Those are $330 Million airplanes.

re. mechanical fixes to downed planes -
"the USAF was established as a separate branch of the United States Armed Forces in 1947"

plenty of time to learn how to fix mechanical stuff.

The "Digital Radio" is a new thing.


The F22 avionics, that Bob was assigned to test and had difficulty testing, has over 60 modules in 2 different backplane assemblies, each the size of a microwave oven.

Each of those modules is about the size of 6 packs of cigarettes, little square boxes about 6 inches square, that are jam packed with computers and radio gear.

The backplane interface connectors are a combination of RF and digital connectors.  With anywhere from 100 to 400+ connections, and the power connections run on the digital connector.


Anyway, if President Biden asked me help fix the F22, I would tell him -
"Israel did 9-11, with help from the US government.  I think it's better that the F22's are broken".

BUT if I was pushed, I would charge the US gov. lots of money to find Bob.


I got to know Bob better after he was laid off, because we went to the same gym.

Once I was in a yoga class between Bart and Bob, surrounded by about 20 women.  Bart hates Bob & Bob ignores Bart.  A pretty classic scene.


22 x $330 Million = $7.26 Billion.


Because I was "Senior" and because of when I got there, I played a "clean-up" role (fixing mistakes) on F22, and an R&D role on JSF flight electronics, because it was just starting up.

One of the interesting projects I worked on was to design the test fixture for each of 2 backplanes.

In that iteration, there were 5390 test points on one F22 backplane, and 5190 on another.  I can tell you that because it has since changed.

Bob knew how complex the design was, and he tried to convince Bart not to go from a Pentium to a 6 core design, to use a computer metaphor.

Bart didn't want to hear it, he wanted to jump 2 or 3 generations in one design.  With disastrous results.


Anyway, I mention this in the context of Boeing equipment failures, because I see a direct connection between the cultural changes at Boeing, and what was happening in San Diego at TRW/ Northrop Grumman 1000 miles South.


In both cases, a "details don't matter" overlay was imposed on a situation where the details really did matter.

This is related to one of the primary changes that I saw in American culture in the late 90's, and especially after 9-11.

The transition to a "details don't matter" culture - where people are discouraged from discussing the details.  And only good news is welcome.

[yankeedoodle]

Wonder where they got the $3.2 billion dollars.   

Israel's government agreed to give Intel
a $3.2 billion grant for a new $25 billion chip plant it plans to build in southern Israel, both sides said on Tuesday, in what is the largest investment ever by a company in Israel.

The news comes as Israel remains locked in a war with Palestinian militant group Hamas in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and is a big show of support by a major U.S. company and a generous offer by Israel's government at a time when Washington has increased pressure on Israel to take further steps to minimize civilian harm in Gaza.

Complete article is here:
Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant, biggest ever company investment in country
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/26/israel-grants-intel-3point2-billion-for-new-25-billion-chip-plant.html