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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    23 minutes ago

    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

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    10 hours ago

    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.

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      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…

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      11 hours ago

      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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    I find it amusing people say they’ll boycott NVIDIA because they set up shop in Israel.

    1. they set up shop in Israel a long time ago (2016 to the best of my memory)
    2. 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.

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      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.

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      12 hours ago

      Add that to the dangers of oligopolies. They can really just do whatever they want at this point.

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      Intel set up shop in Israel long ago, but I’m still boycotting. At least we have AMD as an alternative.

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        I have bad news for you regarding AMD and Israel

        Also Intel and Israel.

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      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.

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    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.

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      Nazi Germany had millions of smart people supporting the world domination effort.

      Where does smart=decent?

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        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.

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        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 they would like to commit genocide on the lower classes.

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      The Nazis had good engineers too. What’s the point of your comment?

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        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.

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          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.

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      11 hours ago

      that’s no question, NSO group and I think a few other commercial rootkit makers are also located there.

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    22 hours ago

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

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      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.