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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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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        Wait, so excuse my ignorance here, if they are made by others in Tawain, what does nvidia do? They just program them then?

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          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.

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          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.

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            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.

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      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.

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      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…

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      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.

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      Israel is at the forefront of water purification tech. As long as they have energy they can make water.

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      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.

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        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.

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          We could go through and blow shit up with impunity,

          Iran’s nuclear.

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        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

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          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.