• ArtikBanana@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Nvidia is also currently building their most powerful supercomputer in Israel. And the CEO has also mentioned the Israeli startup Mellanox (which they acquired for 7 billion USD) as an important part of Nvidia’s success.
    He also said “Israel is home to world-leading AI researchers and developers creating applications for the next wave of AI,” as recently as the end of last year.
    Considering that, their startup accelerator program with over 300 Israeli startups, and their 7 R&D centers in Israel (Intel has 4 facilities), I’d say that by your logic Nvidia is much more “pro-Israel” than Intel. And it’s number 1 in the OP’s article’s list.

    Don’t see any Israelis in the board members or owners. Them and the founders all seem to be American. I did see Bangladeshi-born and Malaysian-born Americans on the board.

    You’re doing semantics with yourself.
    I wrote that ByteDance is headquartered in China and was founded by Chinese. Nowhere did I write “owned by China”.

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      6 months ago

      Oh geez so concidental that Nvidia started pushing for more investments in israel after israeli Michael Kagan became CTO of Nvidia in 2020.

      There’s definitely no ideological Zionist thing going on here either. Just a great idea to do massive investments in an unstable Apartheid state in the middle east instead of in America itself.

      Still the biggest difference here is the amount. A $25 Billion fab is very risky right now and practically ties Intel to israel.