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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 52 points 2 days ago

This has aged appropriately:

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah yes, the new world spy/control agency. I shudder to think about the murderous plans they have with AI.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Nvidia is terrorist supporter!!!

[–] pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well I’ll never buy nvidia again

[–] Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

AMD is also in Israel. As is Intel.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

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

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 154 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yet another reason to never buy NVIDIA cards ever again.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also thier consumer sales is next to nothing compared to what they're selling to data centers now...

And all the companies they're selling to are loosing money...

They are completely decoupled from normal economic market motivations...

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 105 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago

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

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 46 points 3 days ago

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

[–] texture@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (28 children)

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.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it looks like Israel is paying them to do this. So yes.

[–] oozy7@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More like US American tax payer is paying them to do this indirectly

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[–] Luminotik@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

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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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As someone who works with gpu deliveries and local ai.. It's impossible to dodge Israel.

If your don't want to support Israel. Your only choice is to not use AIs

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

I mean I'm okay with that.

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 96 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 57 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

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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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 27 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] Syndication@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, is related to Jensen Huang; they are first cousins once removed. Hopefully she doesn't closely follow Jensen's beliefs, I just thought it was something worth mentioning.

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[–] PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

OK so fuck Nvidia. got it.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I garunfuckingtee the New Gaza and New Rafah Technocracies will be powered by Nvidia if Jason has his way.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 43 points 3 days ago

Fuck you nvidia.

[–] sprack@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

AMD, Intel and Qualcomm all have divisions in Israel too.

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[–] pir8t0x@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] liking625@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago

Bye nvidia forever

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