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Nvidia is actively seeking land to build a massive multibillion-dollar tech campus in Israel’s north, which is expected to provide thousands of jobs in what promises to be a major expansion of the US chip giant’s operations in the country.

The computing juggernaut announced on Sunday that it had issued a so-called request for information (RFI) tender to locate a plot of land spanning 70 to 120 dunams (30 acres) with construction rights to build a campus of 80,000–180,000 square meters. Nvidia is interested in buying land with “high accessibility to main traffic arteries and public transportation” around Zichron Yaakov, Haifa, and the Jezreel Valley areas. The tech titan has hired real estate consulting firm Colliers for the search and has set July 23 as the deadline for submissions.

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[–] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Love to expand my business infrastructure in a country that’s actively perpetrating a genocide. Very cool.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Someone's gotta create demand for stealing Palestinian homes. /s

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course, there’s a lot of free land up there!

[–] matdave@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

Nvidia is actively seeking land to build tech campus in Isreal's... sweats bullets ... north... sigh of relief

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 108 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nvidia is a genocide enabling company. They should be punished for this anti-humanitarian activity.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 28 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

a touch generalizing maybe?

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe... But it is true. Nobody and I mean nobody is going to punish them for this.

[–] boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

what constitutes punishment? not buying their products has to be worth something, right?

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It does, yes. But I don't think anyone will stop buying their products. Look at who they sell to:

  1. Gamers
  2. AI bros
  3. Crypto cucks

Maybe a handful of gamers will decide not to. But in large enough quantities and for long enough to make a difference? Nah. Not going to happen.

[–] boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 1 points 6 hours ago

I have crypto and I play games and I will not buy Nvidia again

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wasn’t really looking for a reason to not use NVIDIA but whatever

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 days ago

I wasn’t really looking for ~~a~~ another reason to not use NVIDIA but whatever

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Man I really hope Radeon and Arc don't fold.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Arc 850 is apparently a banger of a midrange card. The mid range, I imagine, is the sweet spot for volume and profitability

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's considered budget now. At $250 MSRP it's equal to the cheapest release by Nvidia

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[–] bigmamoth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

If only ark went with dxvk rather than their half backed pilots that crash

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Most tech companies are evil let’s be honest guys

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Which ones aren't?

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago

The most evil companies tend to send the most reliable and substantial paychecks, unfortunately.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago

Oh cool so the next gen of nvidia cards will spy on us for Israel? In the name of stopping terrorist?

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago
[–] The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Cue to Linus.jpeg

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago
[–] Vinci@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m buying an AMD gpu already, you don’t have to convince me.

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[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago

Nvidia is already in Israel too. This would be a new campus.

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[–] etherphon@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Way overpriced and under performing consumer cards, shitty bloated drivers and now this? Matrox or Diamond come back plz.

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 22 points 2 days ago (7 children)

What's drawing them to Isreal? Is the local talent really that good?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Probably promised slave labor by the camp residents.

[–] olosta@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

The networking part of Nvidia (based on Infiniband) was originally an Israeli company called Mellanox. They probably already have a large footprint there.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Israeli investors in NVIDIA push the company to invest in Israel. Israel is one giant nepotism club.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Some deal with the israeli government if I had to guess.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

That's what we call an IBM move.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 days ago

That's evil

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Some of Amd GPU work is in Israel.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

i guess graphics will live in my imagination

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

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