Comments on: Intel to leave Cavite for China?

By: dkPinoy

dkPinoy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:08:45 +0000

Oh man! My dad used to work there as a supervisor at the Flash Department.

He retired…but Intel in the Philippines is a BIG ASSET in the Philippine Economy. Remember, it’s the biggest semicon company, I think, in the world. And it’s a pleasure that they have their plant on our country. But, now that they’ll go bye-bye, I see possibilities that are not so good. Specially we’re in the midst of an ‘Economic Crisis’.

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By: Intel on its way out of the Philippines | YugaTech | Philippines, Technology News & Reviews

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:27:39 +0000

[...] shop. Then, Intel Philippines sold its flash division. Early April last year, Intel announced a new $2.5 billion fab in China which paved the way for speculations that it’s leaving the [...]

By: Raymond

Raymond — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:30:05 +0000

As of this posting, I received an email from a former colleague who works at Intel Cavite and they were already informed yesterday that they are closing down the site in 6-9 months. I feel sad about this news since i knew a lot of people over there who are really good and now they need to find work.

By: Southpark

Southpark — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:37:01 +0000

Intel Philippines is scaling down its operations. The microprocessor plant will now be moved to China and perhaps Vietnam. Its Flash plant has been sold off. What remains is the small board-making and chipset plant.

Philippines used to have an edge when it comes to technical manpower. But both China and Vietnam are now catching up, at cheaper cost. Not to mention that price of electricity here is expensive, and tax incentives offered by the government are no longer attractive (compared to other Asian countries). The strong peso is also hurting exports.

I won’t be surprised if Intel will be gone in the Philippines give-or-take 3-5 years from now.

By: Kilabot

Kilabot — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:44:20 +0000

aysuuuuuuuuuusssssssssss…….all intel facilities and the likes were transfered to china na!….as in!…pati cavite at mga tao….e pinagbabayaran na nga nila ang mga tao nila kasi hinde nila matanggal..kaya hinainan nila nang tig 1 million plus computer package!>..san ka pa!?…..wag na kayo magulat…..kasi….Philippines were always stepping stone for trial and error mode nang isang company……kaya madali silang makapag adjust sa China…..kaya nga ung mga taga intel naman e hirap maghanp work kasi binabarat na sila pagpunta nila sa china.at mahirap rin maging boss kasi mas boss siempre ang mga chinese dun!……anyway, if u got to visit not EPZA companies..mapapansin mo ang marami e mga korean at taiwanese na!..kasi yan ang mahigpit na competitor nang China.while some japanese companies e na eenganyo na ring lumipat sa china..like toshiba nidec and so on….while some part of them e di pa rin maiwan ang Pinas kasi may mga magagaling nga tayo….fyi

By: sexyjerk

sexyjerk — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:17:01 +0000

hi guys, i’m working with Intel, and we haven’t heard anything about it in fact i’m working to support their manpower needs.. most of the positions that i’m working are managerial positions.

well…hiding something from the staff whats really happening is another story

By: Monster

Monster — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:22:02 +0000

Why is Intel in Cavite in the first place? In the middle of nowhere? Why not transfer to Sta. Rosa, Laguna where the business parks are closer to SLEX. Could it be somebody got rich in choosing Cavite?

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:14:06 +0000

I used to work in both Makati and Cavite factories. Makati was strictly for Flash memory which Intel recently sold off. It was probably closed to position for the sale. Plus even the Japanese subcon factories were cheaper.
Overall problems are infrastructure - roads, electricity, holidays, and turnover. The Makati plant still had a house surronded by the plant. The owner wouldn’t sell and the gov’t can’t use emminent domain. Getting to Cavite is tough. 2 lane roads and for a long time one of the lanes had an electric pole a meter inside a lane. What happens when another earthquake hits and knocks out some of the bridges? Electricity prices are among the highest in Asia and among the most unreliable. The gov’t is always declaring a new holiday making production planning tougher. Finally, once management gets some experience, they either leave for better pay or retire on what they’ve earned.
But it was my favorite job at Intel. There’s a lot of potential if people focus on the strengths - teamwork, can-do attitude, low cost, and easy gov’t access.

By: Tao_ba_ako_inay

Tao_ba_ako_inay — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:06:26 +0000

The Cavite plant is not running for decades. It was built in the late 90s. The original Makati plant had to be closed to consolidate all manufacturing operations into one site.

Intel is not leaving Cavite. Of course there have been changes in terms of what product lines that the Cavite plant will do (since some of them will be moved to CHina while those from China will be transferred to Cavite)

By: VIIV

VIIV — Wed, 02 May 2007 03:31:15 +0000

“Intel is allegedly leaving the Cavite plant”
this is NOT true.
Intel moved out of from Makati to Cavite to expand due to the growing demand.

By: yuga

yuga — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:06:02 +0000

Are we seeing a trend here? Maybe someday, all the call centers will go to China as well (once they learn how to speak fluent English).

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:18:07 +0000

The FedEx hub moving to Guangzhou (I read it will be open by 2008.) No surprise there, it’s probably the world capital of manufacturing.

By: yuga

yuga — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:56:38 +0000

FedEx used to have their regional hub here in Subic years ago until they left for HK or China.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:17:08 +0000

Besides, Intel may be an “IT Company” but their plants around the world are basically in the Manufacturing Industry.

The real “IT” part of Intel is in their research labs in the US, Israel, and other places with lots of Ph.D’s to power their activities.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:34:11 +0000

And once Chinese became more fluent in English… “Goodbye Call-Centers” for the Philippines.

China is indeed a sleeping giant.

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:13:19 +0000

If this is really true, then it is gonna be bad news for the Philippine economy and as JC said, more unemployment.

By: jhay

jhay — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:43:04 +0000

@ JC

Never ever say that agriculture is useless dude. Think of the 60-70% of Pilipinos who still depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Besides, where would we get our food to eat?

From Google Reader? Peace!

I say the government must develop agriculture because history has proven that the industrialized nations we so envy and dream of migrating to started out as agricultural societies and still are dependent on agriculture up to now.

It’s sad that Intel is leaving, but we can’t depend on the IT sector alone to prop up the economy, because our economy is not yet IT-based.

Let’s take it one step at a time.

By: Jeffrey Wong

Jeffrey Wong — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:58:05 +0000

Probably the businesses there are protected from extortionists like the police, government officials.