On: Intel to invest $7B in factory in Arizona, employ 3,000

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Intel opened a $ 2.5B fab in China in 2010. There's also an R/D office there.

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Intel makes generic NAND memory on a 65nm process in that fab. That isn't the kind of IP anybody needs to steal.

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Good point.

The organization that runs fabs (TMG) is also notoriously tight lipped in regards to corporate security, I would image they assessed leak risk before opening the fab.