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Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north
(www.timesofisrael.com)
Of course, there’s a lot of free land up there!
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
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Man I really hope Radeon and Arc don't fold.
If only ark went with dxvk rather than their half backed pilots that crash
The Arc 850 is apparently a banger of a midrange card. The mid range, I imagine, is the sweet spot for volume and profitability
It's considered budget now. At $250 MSRP it's equal to the cheapest release by Nvidia
Sure, but I imagine that the volume thing still applies. I'm guessing here.
Ew
I wasn’t really looking for a reason to not use NVIDIA but whatever
I wasn’t really looking for ~~a~~ another reason to not use NVIDIA but whatever
Most tech companies are evil let’s be honest guys
The most evil companies tend to send the most reliable and substantial paychecks, unfortunately.
Nvidia is a genocide enabling company. They should be punished for this anti-humanitarian activity.
Yeah that's not going to happen. Gamers don't give a shit. AI bros don't give a shit. Crypto cucks don't give a shit. And most importantly.... the US doesn't give a shit.
Harsh but true.
a touch generalizing maybe?
Maybe... But it is true. Nobody and I mean nobody is going to punish them for this.
Yes. I personally haven't bought Intel since they've shown themselves, or MS. And now I won't buy NVidia (I have a good cheap GPU from them, though ; and they make FreeBSD drivers ; it's unfortunate).
I do use a PDA with Android with Google services.
Linux users do though. If people keep moving from Windows to Linux they're going to run up against the trash Nvidia driver support pretty quick.
This is a problem that Nvidia is capable of solving but they haven't been interested in it for over a decade so I don't see them starting now.
Expecting a major flood of new Linux users might be a bit of a pipe dream though. But the momentum is building. If we do manage to swing the market noticeably in that way, AMD is going to get a big boost over Nvidia in the gaming GPU market.
I doubt that will really move the needle for crypto bros or AI farms, but it is something.
This is a problem that Nvidia is capable of solving but they haven’t been interested in it for over a decade so I don’t see them starting now.
They actually recently open sourced a bunch of required infrastructure, and hired a bunch of the OSS driver maintainers.
It's all still pretty crap, but there's more hope now.
Well, that's good news for my desktop build, and bad news for my hope for the future, I guess.
All the AI racks are Linux based and are built on Nvidia graphics. Meta and Google were ordering iterations of GB200's ranging from $2-4million per rack. (Did some diagnosing issues on racks/servers that failed tests after coming off the assembly lines as a subcontractor). So I'm afraid you are right about moving the needle there.
crypto cucks?
That's right, I said it. It's a thing now 🤣.
Oh cool so the next gen of nvidia cards will spy on us for Israel? In the name of stopping terrorist?
Fuck Nvidia.
Cunts
I’m buying an AMD gpu already, you don’t have to convince me.
Amd is already in Israel.
Nvidia is already in Israel too. This would be a new campus.
What are AMD doing in Israel? I thought I had made a good choice going with AMD. 😞
The big 3 (AMD, Intel, Nvidia) in the graphics space already have a presence in the country due to manufacturing and design capabilities.
It's a similar case with certain weapons manufacturing as well.
Israel has, compared to US, still cheaper human resources and probably no issue with security-minded limitations on technology transfer or whatever.
Is AMD at least a tiny bit better than Nvidia in this regard? 😅
I haven't done enough research to say for sure, unfortunately. I know AMD is far better than Nvidia in terms of not being as entrenched in AI development (which by extension, is weaponized for generating target information), and they're also better in terms of not being as proprietary (hiding everything behind closed doors), although that's not directly related.
So currently? I think they're morally better than Nvidia, yeah. But it's not a high bar to clear, and as their market share progresses, they may fall to the same practices that Nvidia was encouraged to embrace.
Very good analysis.
At least they aren't investing heavily in new stuff in Israel, like Nvidia are, I suppose.
Thanks for the great answer!
What's drawing them to Isreal? Is the local talent really that good?
Silicon Valley person here. There is a relatively developed tech sector there, with a growing startup scene in Tel-Aviv. So not a horrible place to have an office (from purely talent reasons, setting ethics aside). But not necessarily fantastic either. There are bigger and more developed tech scenes in other countries. The Netherlands, Germany and Austria in particular have a lot of high tech semiconductor manufacturing companies which would be logical for a company like NVIDIA. As well as the added benefit of not currently waging a war against civilians.
Probably currying favour with Zionists in the administration.
Israeli investors in NVIDIA push the company to invest in Israel. Israel is one giant nepotism club.
The networking part of Nvidia (based on Infiniband) was originally an Israeli company called Mellanox. They probably already have a large footprint there.
Some deal with the israeli government if I had to guess.
Way overpriced and under performing consumer cards, shitty bloated drivers and now this? Matrox or Diamond come back plz.
S3: Am I joke to you?
3DFX: ☠️
That's evil
next gpu will also be amd
Some of Amd GPU work is in Israel.
i guess graphics will live in my imagination
Still a lot less than NVIDIA. Else we are going to have to wait for the Chinese stuff. Rumors are they have a 4060 tier GPU now.
We don't know how big AMD is in Israel because they keep it secret.
Edit: Hey Downvoter, could you link the number of AMD employees in Israel? Because I searched and only found that "AMD doesn't list employees by region in their public disclosures."
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