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Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second home (en.globes.co.il)
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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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[–] 45 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    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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