Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment

Submitted ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨IndustryStandard@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjcwdmxxzg

Now it is official: Nvidia’s spacecraft is set to land in Kiryat Tivon. After a five-month process in which the world’s most valuable company examined several alternatives for establishing a new mega-campus in Israel, Nvidia has chosen Kiryat Tivon.

The company, currently valued at about $4.3 trillion, will purchase the land from the state for approximately NIS 90 million (approximately $28 million), making it the first international technology company in Israel to build a major campus on land it owns. Until now, the campuses of multinational giants such as Intel, Microsoft, Google, and Meta have all been located in leased properties.

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raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
And again I have to say Jensen Huang is a piece of shit.

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Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Cool. I’m now 100% team AMD if I could even buy a guy ever again.

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0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So new nvidia chip designs will include israeli rootkits, got it.

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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yup. That really cements further that I will not buy Nvidia again.

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- 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Yet another reason to never buy NVIDIA cards ever again.

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- VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They don’t want to sell you anything anymore anyways. They want you to RENT computing time.
  
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texture@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
as if i needed another reason to avoid nvidia. unconscionable move here.

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- cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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  - big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    same card, lmk what you find out
    
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SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So now Nvidia will be the red one? You know, with all the blood shed by Israel...

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bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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- IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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  - bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    it looks like Israel is paying them to do this. So yes.
    
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- Luminotik@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  NVIDIA doesn’t manufacture chips at all (TSMC does), 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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  - hector@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wait, so excuse my ignorance here, if they are made by others in Tawain, what does nvidia do? They just program them then?
    
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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  It takes an enormous amount of ultra pure water to make a micro chip
  
  Israel has some of the most advanced desalination facilities in the world
  
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  - hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    They make such great use of our tax dollars.
    
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- MalReynolds@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The chips are made in Taiwan (TSMC), this is likely for chip designers, (and marketers and executives and sundry other hangers on of little worth), water is irrelevant. Evil on the other hand…
  
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- boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  If Iran wants to really hurt Israel just start blowing up Nvidia.
  
  That’d be a great way to get either Maduro’d or more likely Iraq’d unfortunately. War on nvidia is war on Trump.
  
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  - IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Iran would only bomb it when attacked. The problem is that Israel is on a course to invade every country around them and be in permanent war forever. So building tech hubs there is like drawing a giant bullseye on the map
    
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  - hector@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Maduro was given up by venezuela’s military though. That operation was not possible, and indeed would not have been attempted, if the military hadn’t entered into an agreement to stand down, and given intelligence. Helicopters are vulnerable to multiple weapons systems they couldn’t reliably take out, not the least in one of the most protected places in the country with the country mobilized.
    
    There is no question, the military is now the de facto power, overseeing the now puppet civilian government in selling out their assets, an old cold war template.
    
    'As such, they would not be able to do that in Iran. What they could do, is assassinate their leaders, including the ayatollah. They have everything compromised more than Iran thinks too, they could. Only the US likely stopped netanyahu from doing so already.
    
    As to invasions, it has a lot of mountainous areas, and is several times larger than Iraq, which is mostly flat. We could go through and blow shit up with impunity, but an Iraq style invasion is out of the question unless our leaders lose their minds quite a bit more. Not that they wouldn’t try anyway but not now they want to make war on America.
    
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- discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Israel is at the forefront of water purification tech. As long as they have energy they can make water.
  
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- hector@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Maybe they can use salt water for it? If they have to desalianate it one would think that would be a dealbreaker.
  
  Tis a good question you ask. Why indeed. Just currying favor with the group that controls the superpower I suppose, what with the child fucking tapes Israel has on the president and a critical mass of politicians in the US and UK, and businessman and other swells. And whatever other blackmail.
  
  I can’t think of any other reasons, other than currying favour with Israel.
  
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Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I was just reading Apple doing all of it’s Silicon research over Israel as well. Wondering what Israel is promising them to get landed with lucrative business.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Image
  
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- 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s probably something illegal involving kids the way billionares have been acting…
  
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waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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- RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Bold of you to assume they don’t already have access to all the existing NSA backdoor.
  
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  - Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This is why all backdoors are bad.
    
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- floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Intel ME: helo
  
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
So now we have to assume that everyone using Nvidia hardware has an open backdoor for the Mossad. Very nice. Fucking lovely timeline.

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- boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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%.
  
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  - Tm12@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thanks for putting this together.
    
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  - hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes. I wouldn’t focus on someone being able to tell which map you’re playing, and which color your car has in Need For Speed. It’s way more unsettling what’s in networking equipment. Or inside an Intel Management Engine, and the firmware blobs of all the computer chips.
    
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ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Scumbag company considers scumbag country home…it’s a perfect fit.

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Mrkawfee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
OK so fuck Nvidia. got it.

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Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Fuck you nvidia.

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sprack@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
AMD, Intel and Qualcomm all have divisions in Israel too.

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- IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.
  
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pir8t0x@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
BOYCOTT NVIDIA

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- 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Way ahead of you on that, welcome to the club.
  
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liking625@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Bye nvidia forever

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turdburglar@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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- hector@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  They aren’t selling to the consumer directly though, they are selling primarily to governments and business. Given that Israel controls the US and many of it’s businessman, this will win them favor. The regular citizens will be victims of their consumers more than anything. AI will be put to all sorts of draconian 1984 kind of uses.
  
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flandish@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
oh what a surprise. a corporation doing the thing all capitalists do - exploit.

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verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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- 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Money talks.
  Power corrupts.
  
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Adam_Crock@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Great. now I can’t wait to see Iran firing a rocket at that building.

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selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Fuck you, Nvidia.

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GaryGhost@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ive been an amd fanboy since athlon blew away pentum 4s. Their bulldozer chips had a bad rep I never understood it

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- xeekei@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well, they were slow as hell for one.
  
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melfie@lemy.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’d love to never buy from Nvidia again if RDNA 5 can live up to the hype. Current generation AMD cards are unfortunately not cost effective for the path tracing and compute workloads I run (Blender rendering, simulations, and certain ML models). Hopefully, AMD will offer midrange cards with strong compute capabilities that don’t have artificially limited VRAM. I’m especially excited about the Radiance cores: true RTX to compete with Optix.

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- 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nvidia… AMD… potatos… potatos…
  
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