Even if one doesn't care about genocide, they should still care if their own GPU is rigged to explode.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2026
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Cool. I’m now 100% team AMD if I could even buy a guy ever again.
And again I have to say Jensen Huang is a piece of shit.
So now Nvidia will be the red one? You know, with all the blood shed by Israel...
So new nvidia chip designs will include israeli rootkits, got it.
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
I was just reading Apple doing all of it’s Silicon R&D over Israel as well. Wondering what Israel is promising them to get landed with lucrative business.
It's probably something illegal involving kids the way billionares have been acting...
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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...
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OK so fuck Nvidia. got it.
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.
So now we have to assume that everyone using Nvidia hardware has an open backdoor for the Mossad. Very nice. Fucking lovely timeline.
There's no US tech without Israel.
Intel also has a large Israel presence and they have had backdoors in their hardware before, though claim it was not on purpose. Interestingly, the vulnerabilities in the AMD equivalent were reported by an Israeli company. Perhaps AMD crossed them and this was vengeance, or perhaps this was completely independent of any Mossad agenda.
Qualcomm also has a history of working with Israeli companies on R&D, as well as acquiring some of them.
And if you thought "hey, maybe Apple, the only real competitor in the CPU space after the aforementioned, has no Israeli ties beyond just selling them products like everyone else", well unfortunately Apple also has an Israel office.
Guess what, ARM itself has Israel ties so you can't TRULY escape Israeli influence.
Short of RISC-V taking off, there's no computing without Israel being involved in one way or another.
Israel is also behind some of everyone's favourite apps, such as Waze, formerly known as FreeMap Israel.
Google has two offices in Israel, Microsoft straight up provides them military surveillance solutions and has a huge R&D office... And Oracle's CEO literally vetted potential US presidential candidates for Israel.
It's not just American tech companies either. If you do want to make your own chips, you'd probably use TSMC, which has strategic ties with Israel. ASML, the company that provides TSMC with the ultra high tech EUV machines also has an Israel office, though it's not like you can make a backdoor with EUV tech... I think. But basically if you have a computing device of any sort, Israel has profited from it in some super minor way, even if it's just 0.0001%.
TL;DR: If you use any major piece of software OR hardware that's not open source, Israel's probably had their grubby fingers in it.
Thanks for putting this together.
Yes. I wouldn't focus too much on someone being able to tell which map you're playing, and which color your car has in Need For Speed. It's way more unsettling what's in networking equipment. Or inside an Intel Management Engine, and the firmware blobs of all the computer chips. Or the software running on it.
Fuck you nvidia.
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.
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