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.
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.
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.
it looks like Israel is paying them to do this. So yes.
More like US American tax payer is paying them to do this indirectly
yup! I have to say that my country has been a decades long disappointment to me.
They’ll eventually destroy nvidia, like they do to everything else they touch. Nvidia is just a tool to them. The US government is just a tool to them too.
Flip it and you’ve got it.
Israel is at the forefront of water purification tech. As long as they have energy they can make water.
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Is this contributing to the dead sea drying up?
I doubt it. It would be highly inefficient to try to desalinate water that is already saltier than the ocean (which they have access to).
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.
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
Those tech hubs are like body armor for Israel unfortunately. Most are American companies and the investments tend to be in the range of billions. CEOs of those companies have Trump’s ear.
Politicians serve businesses and billionaires, not the other way around.
Iran would only bomb it when attacked.
Not quite true, they have a Shia version of Trotsky’s world revolution, except about final battle against evil and apocalypse.
Please expound.
Well, it is an Islamic Republic. Of Shia denomination. Shia technically believe in apocalypse and in bringing it close by battling devilish forces. Which Iranian leaders usually associate with USA and Israel.
They don’t attack. They counter, with great restraint.
Naturally, they are far weaker.
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.
We could go through and blow shit up with impunity,
Iran’s nuclear.
Maduro was given up by venezuela’s military though
Idk about that.
The military wouldn’t have brought helicopters low like that if they weren’t. There are mobile units, shoulder fired weaponry, truck mounted, that can take down helicopters, and they were mobilized, and this was one of the most fortified areas in the country.
I am amazed at how bad everyone is at seeing what is going on, but here we are.
I’m not saying it isn’t possible, I’m saying I really don’t know. Like what discombobulator? Is that the source of “Havana syndrome?”
I was talking about venezuela being a military coup, an agreement with their military to give up maduro, on the cold war template, that their military is now the de facto ruler, a client state of the US, and their civilian leadership puppets.
I fully understand that and I am saying I don’t know yet. Maybe it’s hopium, we will see.
They aren’t going to manufacture there. Chip manufacturing happens almost exclusively in Taiwan. That new building is just an office to design those chips.
A lot of maths goes into designing computer chips. You need an army of highly trained mathematicians and engineers for that.
And Israel is a really rich country that gets a lot of gifts and “investments” from people who want to show they aren’t antisemitic. They invest a lot of that money into the education of their citizens.
Israel’s universities are some of the best in the world. While US universities are on a steep downhill.
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
They make such great use of our tax dollars.
If this was all they were doing, I’d agree
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…
Evil on the other hand…
I agree, it would be much better if Israel were located in some part of (former in that case) Northern Bavaria and its problematic (or not) neighbors were Germans, making them more justified bombing targets. Unfortunately in that case it’d be very likely that it wouldn’t last 20 years. There’d be a combined arms operation, some additional smoke from the stoves, and probably neither the Western nor the Soviet side would care much what their pet Germans are doing.
Also for the purpose of minimizing evil locating chip design in Israel is not worse than in USA. I’m not sure whether you’ll want to argue that, just adding.
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.
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.
Wait, so excuse my ignorance here, if they are made by others in Tawain, what does nvidia do? They just program them then?
You’re not far off. It’s kinda like NVIDIA is the architect who designs the house while TSMC are the guys who actually build it.
The reason for that split is that maintaining fabs (the facilities which actually produce the chips with EUV machines) is insanely expensive and requires much different staff, resources, and expertise than doing the chip design itself.
NVIDIA handles hardware design and software components, TSMC handles actual silicon manufacturing, and a third party handles assembly. This is the case for nearly all hardware companies outside of Intel, Samsung, and a few domestic companies in the PRC.
And even those other companies only manufacture some of the components
Most components they need come in plastic rolls that machines pick up and place on boards, and other such methods
It’s just like any other business, most stuff is bought and assembled into the final produt, but not produced locally.
Yup. That really cements further that I will not buy Nvidia again.
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.
You technically can, without that large of an investment. It’ll be incredibly weak though, to the point it isn’t useful in the modern day.
Yea I’ve seen it done on youtube
Either you create an incredibly weak one, or one that is strong but has gigantic power draw and latency which would be unusable anyway…
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.
Nvidia… AMD… potatos… potatos…
Bold of you to assume they don’t already have access to all the existing NSA backdoor.
This is why all backdoors are bad.
Intel ME: helo
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.
Money talks.
Power corrupts.
OK so fuck Nvidia. got it.
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.
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.
will be? it already is, friend. palantir’s ice apps for one.
AMD, Intel and Qualcomm all have divisions in Israel too.
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.
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.
Politics aside: it’s fucking wild that that such a tiny (both geographically and population) nation with water shortages (yes I know about desal) and in prime position to get wrecked by climate change is such a popular spot for so many tech companies.
Also next time Elon or other whines about declining population, we can cite that a nation of ~10M can support so many tech companies.
as if i needed another reason to avoid nvidia. unconscionable move here.
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.
same card, lmk what you find out
Fuck you nvidia.
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…
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.
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.
Bye nvidia forever
And again I have to say Jensen Huang is a piece of shit.
