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Nvidia has confirmed "Globes" report that it has chosen the Israel Land Authority (ILA) area in Kiryat Tivon to build its huge campus that will accommodate up to 10,000 employees.

According to the illustration published by the US chip giant, this will be a large campus inspired by the design of the company’s new iconic headquarters in Santa Clara. When built it will be surrounded by commercial areas and restaurants with investment in parks and green spaces.

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[-] donkeyass@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 week ago

This has aged appropriately:

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Yet another reason to never buy NVIDIA cards ever again.

[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

They don't want to sell you anything anymore anyways. They want you to RENT computing time.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Yup. That really cements further that I will not buy Nvidia again.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

Can't wait for AMD to follow them like the little bitches that they are... Then there's Intel... I guess they exist too...

I wish I could make a GPU at home.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

You technically can, without that large of an investment. It'll be incredibly weak though, to the point it isn't useful in the modern day.

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[-] pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

Well I’ll never buy nvidia again

[-] Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 week ago

Neither. Even before seeing this I had decided my next GPU will be AMD, just because of how crap Nvidias driver support is on Linux.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

And again I have to say Jensen Huang is a piece of shit.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

So now we have to assume that everyone using Nvidia hardware has an open backdoor for the Mossad. Very nice. Fucking lovely timeline.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's no US tech without Israel.

Intel also has a large Israel presence and they have had backdoors in their hardware before, though claim it was not on purpose. Interestingly, the vulnerabilities in the AMD equivalent were reported by an Israeli company. Perhaps AMD crossed them and this was vengeance, or perhaps this was completely independent of any Mossad agenda.

Qualcomm also has a history of working with Israeli companies on R&D, as well as acquiring some of them.

And if you thought "hey, maybe Apple, the only real competitor in the CPU space after the aforementioned, has no Israeli ties beyond just selling them products like everyone else", well unfortunately Apple also has an Israel office.

Guess what, ARM itself has Israel ties so you can't TRULY escape Israeli influence.

Short of RISC-V taking off, there's no computing without Israel being involved in one way or another.

Israel is also behind some of everyone's favourite apps, such as Waze, formerly known as FreeMap Israel.

Google has two offices in Israel, Microsoft straight up provides them military surveillance solutions and has a huge R&D office... And Oracle's CEO literally vetted potential US presidential candidates for Israel.

It's not just American tech companies either. If you do want to make your own chips, you'd probably use TSMC, which has strategic ties with Israel. ASML, the company that provides TSMC with the ultra high tech EUV machines also has an Israel office, though it's not like you can make a backdoor with EUV tech... I think. But basically if you have a computing device of any sort, Israel has profited from it in some super minor way, even if it's just 0.0001%.

TL;DR: If you use any major piece of software OR hardware that's not open source, Israel's probably had their grubby fingers in it.

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

Even if one doesn't care about genocide, they should still care if their own GPU is rigged to explode.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 points 1 week ago

Cool. I’m now 100% team AMD if I could even buy a guy ever again.

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[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago

So new nvidia chip designs will include israeli rootkits, got it.

[-] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Bold of you to assume they don't already have access to all the existing NSA backdoor.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

This is why all backdoors are bad.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Intel ME: helo

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Hard to imagine a more disgusting headline for Nvidia. I hope they go broke.

[-] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Ya. It’s disappointing. But there are so many foundries in Israel. I’m not surprised. This is also why I don’t believe in terrorists. If anyone really wanted to stop Israel. They would target their foundries. But no one would dare mess with capitalism on that level.

[-] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

On a more practical level, why????

It takes an enormous amount of ultra pure water to make a micro chip. There is a worsening water shortage in that area. This is the worse place to do this.

Also if you built it in the eu, you have easy access to a huge market and ready customers.
Also the Middle East is constantly immersed in war. If Iran wants to really hurt Israel just start blowing up Nvidia.

On a purely practical level, this is really stupid. So the only explanations are politics, or they are being paid to do this. As to whom engineered this I have no idea.

Edit: The more I dig into it, the more this looks like evil bond villain shit.

[-] Luminotik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

NVIDIA doesn’t manufacture chips at all (TSMC in Taiwan makes NVIDIA’s chips), so this facility would presumably be for R&D, marketing, devising the next scheme to screw everyone over and increase share value, yada yada.

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Lot of Zionists in the Nvidia board and staff trying to tie the worlds most valuable company to the Apartheid state. They want Israel to be a strategic asset like TSMC.

[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They'll eventually destroy nvidia, like they do to everything else they touch. Nvidia is just a tool to them. The US government is just a tool to them too.

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[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Nvidia is terrorist supporter!!!

[-] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was just reading Apple doing all of it’s Silicon R&D over Israel as well. Wondering what Israel is promising them to get landed with lucrative business.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

It's probably something illegal involving kids the way billionares have been acting...

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[-] texture@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

as if i needed another reason to avoid nvidia. unconscionable move here.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I just need to figure out what the best AMD card I can get is which isn't going to break the bank and be a sizeable bump over my 2070s then I'll have no more Nvidia products in my home.

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Scumbag company considers scumbag country home...it's a perfect fit.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

OK so fuck Nvidia. got it.

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

I find it amusing people say they’ll boycott NVIDIA because they set up shop in Israel.

  1. they set up shop in Israel a long time ago (2016 to the best of my memory)
  2. all of their competitors also operate in Israel to some degree

If you need discrete graphics you don’t have any choice. They all operate in Israel to some degree.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

Add that to the dangers of oligopolies. They can really just do whatever they want at this point.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Intel set up shop in Israel long ago, but I’m still boycotting. At least we have AMD as an alternative.

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That tracks.

[-] pir8t0x@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago
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[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 week ago

So now Nvidia will be the red one? You know, with all the blood shed by Israel...

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