Intel, which -- as many have learned -- has cozy relations with Israel through its Haifa operations lost 90% of sales in the fourth quarter of 2008.
In reaction they will be closing operations in Malaysia, Philipines, Oregon, and California, (from above link) all locations that probably don't need the cutbacks. I'm not sure that the US plants were very important, but the cutbacks most likely leave Intel even more heavily dependent on their Haifa plant to which they announced an expansion in 2006.
Obviously, a reduction in sales in the 4th quarter of 2008 can't be tied to an emerging boycott by interested individuals of companies that have ties to Israel, but this is information on important and lucrative ingredients that you can't get from reading the bar code of the product that contains the chips. You can read the box though to see if there's "Israel Inside".
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