Intel Barbados Factory ?

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xsecret



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:42 am    Post subject: Intel Barbados Factory ? Reply with quote

Are you aware of an Intel's Factory on Barbados island ???
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bb.html

This island is really small and I don't understand how an Intel Factory could be there :-/

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

431sq km is by no means tiny.

They have a quarter million people there and intel USE to have an assembly plant there.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't understand why.

This place is in the middle of nowhere...

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Probably paradis fiscal? Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's in the Caribean, and Intel also has a big plant in Costa Rica, not too far away.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 02, 2019 2:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have Intel D8259A that was made in Barbados:

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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I used to had a D3002 made in Barbados...
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a D4004 made in Barbados but ... this thread is 15 years old.
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