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Apple to Open R&D Facility in Ra'anana, Israel Staffed With Former TI Employees

Apple to Open R&D Facility in Ra'anana, Israel Staffed With Former TI Employees

Posted February 11, 2013 at 4:45pm by iClarified
Apple is reportedly set to open a research and development center in Ra'anana, Israel staffed by 100-150 former Texas Instruments employees, reports Globes.

Texas Instruments recently laid off about 250 employees at its facility in the area who were working on the company's OMAP and radio (including WiFi and Bluetooth) chips, which are used a number of new smartphone and tablet devices. At the time, Apple was said to be hiring dozens of them.

The new Apple development center in the Ra'anana Industrial Zone will be the company's third in Israel after it opened a development center in Haifa last year and acquired flash memory developer Anobit in Herzliya. TI announced in November that it was laying off 1,700 employees worldwide in an attempt to significantly reduce expenditure. Most of the layoffs were in the wireless communications sector. In Israel, TI's activities are based on two acquisitions from the 1990s - Libit for $365 million and Betterplay for $50 million.


Read More [via TNW]


Apple to Open R&D Facility in Ra'anana, Israel Staffed With Former TI Employees
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McLovin
McLovin - February 11, 2013 at 5:17pm
Thanks. Never would have guessed that.
tzvifiller
tzvifiller - February 11, 2013 at 4:53pm
I'm Jewish
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