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.
I’m pretty sure Israel is the capital in what is turning into a global hunger games dystopia
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Well I’ll never buy nvidia again
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.
AMD is also in Israel. As is Intel.
Nvidia is terrorist supporter!!!
Hard to imagine a more disgusting headline for Nvidia. I hope they go broke.
Cool. I’m now 100% team AMD if I could even buy a guy ever again.
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.
AMD and Intel also have presence in Israel.
There’s plenty of other reasons to boycott Nvidia, but at this point you can’t avoid Israel just by avoiding Nvidia.
Fuck it, I’m declaring war on Israel than.
AMD has a much smaller presence in Israel than the other two so they are the “lesser evil”.
Good thing picking from the lesser of evils has never gotten us into trouble.
In any case AMD is far less invested in Israel than Nvidia so if one must buy a GPU then going AMD guarantees far less money going to Israel.
I will agree with that. Nvidia has been dead to me ever since they went all in for AI.
Even if one doesn’t care about genocide, they should still care if their own GPU is rigged to explode.
Ah yes, the new world spy/control agency. I shudder to think about the murderous plans they have with AI.
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.
The people the West labels as terrorists have been exploited and oppressed for generations. They don’t have the resources to get into Israel and perform meaningful acts of sabotage. Actions like that are better coming from the citizens of Israel who still have a conscience. They could look to groups like Palestine Action, whose sustained sabotage efforts against an Israeli weapons manufacturer lead to the closure of at least one factory in Britain, and led to Barclays bank divesting from the company. Of course, now Palestine Action are labeled as terrorists for that…
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
I mean I’m okay with that.
That tracks.
I garunfuckingtee the New Gaza and New Rafah Technocracies will be powered by Nvidia if Jason has his way.
I find it amusing people say they’ll boycott NVIDIA because they set up shop in Israel.
- they set up shop in Israel a long time ago (2016 to the best of my memory)
- 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.
Add that to the dangers of oligopolies. They can really just do whatever they want at this point.
Intel set up shop in Israel long ago, but I’m still boycotting. At least we have AMD as an alternative.
I have bad news for you regarding AMD and Israel
Also Intel and Israel.
It is not just about setting up shop in Israel. It is about building a megacampus while Israel is doing a genocide and is massively bleeding money.
The “to some degree” is the difference. It went from Intel being the primary investor in Israel to now Nvidia. AMD also has some investments in Israel but they are marginal compared to the other two.
Not defending Jensen or Israel, but want to point out that Israel has many good engineers - the Intel team that designed the Core/Core Duo/Core Quad and saved Intel from the Netburst (Pentium 4) architecture was from Israel.
They have smart people, but I definitely do not agree with their government’s actions.
Nazi Germany had millions of smart people supporting the world domination effort.
Where does smart=decent?
Where does smart=decent?
Makes me think of the country subreddit I left not so long ago, where the members were so full of themselves and despite their intelligence and claims to empathy they would like to commit genocide on the lower classes.
No one mentioned smart = decent. But you can’t also assume Israeli = bad. Not everyone in Israel supports its government’s actions.
Imagine people elsewhere in the world assuming any random American = Nazi.
Haaretz reports that 82% of Israelis support the expulsión of Palestinians from Gaza, so yeah, fuck Israel AND Israelis.
The Nazis had good engineers too. What’s the point of your comment?
The point is that’s why Nvidia is setting up shop there. You know… the original story of this thread…
Anyway, one of the Nazi’s downfall was they kept designing better and better tanks, and that ultimately required more resources to build. While the US just basically kept spamming them with simple design tanks that doesn’t require as much to build.
This is sadly a very common misconception, mostly due to the Nazi propaganda itself. The pre-war designs where mostly retrofitted civilian machines, the best example are the first planes they build. This was due to the restrictions to rearmament. After the war begun, the meth upped shitheads mostly threw material against every problem they faced (more money = less problems = more good). The result were monstrosities that broke down regularly. Another good example for the propaganda of “ze effizint Jerman Enjeniring” is the Autobahn. There was an Autobahn before. Hitler added some small parts and made sure he and his goons are photographed doing it. Boom, Hitler build the Autobahn.
They have dumb people too, same as any other population of humans.
that’s no question, NSO group and I think a few other commercial rootkit makers are also located there.
Yet another reason to never buy NVIDIA cards ever again.
They don’t want to sell you anything anymore anyways. They want you to RENT computing time.
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…
