Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia�s second home
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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.

    • VieuxQueb@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      26 days ago

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

  • Ex Nummis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    26 days 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.xyzEnglish
      391·
      26 days 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.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      26 days 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.

  • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    26 days 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.

    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      14·
      26 days ago

      Intel has a fab there but aborted their large new Israel fab after the genocide started. AMD has some footprint in Israel too.

      What really sets Nvidia apart here is this massive campus and investment during the genocide.

      • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        Intel didn’t abort their new facility because of genocide, they could care less. They’re not making money right now so it’s not a good time to expand, and that’s about it.