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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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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 120 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yet another reason to never buy NVIDIA cards ever again.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 75 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 48 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 weeks ago

This is why all backdoors are bad.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago

Intel ME: helo

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 65 points 3 weeks ago (2 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 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 47 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (29 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 35 points 3 weeks 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 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] oozy7@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Luminotik@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] donkeyass@lemmy.sdf.org 43 points 3 weeks ago

This has aged appropriately:

[–] texture@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 37 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 32 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago

OK so fuck Nvidia. got it.

[–] pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I’ll never buy nvidia again

[–] Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf 13 points 3 weeks 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.

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[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[–] liking625@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

Bye nvidia forever

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 26 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck you nvidia.

[–] sprack@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Nvidia is terrorist supporter!!!

[–] pir8t0x@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 18 points 4 weeks ago

oh what a surprise. a corporation doing the thing all capitalists do - exploit.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 17 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 16 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

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

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[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

well someone has a great eye for reading the room…

wtf - this fool out here actin as if building the sponge for all the worlds electricity wasn’t shitty enuf.

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[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So a company led by a Taiwanese is supporting the genocide of a people by their bigger, wealthier, stronger neighbour... The irony is palpable. 

Yearly reminder the modern Taiwan establishment was birthed by a brutal and repressive authoritarian fascist and their elite are not much different today. 

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[–] Adam_Crock@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Great. now I can't wait to see Iran firing a rocket at that building.

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