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AMD Opens Israeli R&D Center, Hints At ARM Link
siliconbits writes "We've learnt that AMD will open a new research and development center in Israel in the Tel-Aviv area, one which will be built around Graphic Remedy, the small startup they purchased in September 2010 and which specialises in development tools for heterogeneous computing and 3D graphics. Although the chip company hasn't published any press releases yet, the news is a clear indication that AMD sees its future (and its survival) in a more fragmented market where x86 is no longer the dominating platform."
Now Israel will be providing ARMs to the US for a change!
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You can always buy any of the Palestinian designed CPUs out there.
I worked in a semiconductor fab for a long time and we used AMAT SEM machines that were manufactured in israel. The direct factory reps were all israeli as well. A lot of people think of israel as this war-torn middle east wasteland but that's just not the case. It's a very wealthy and prosperous country, even if they are expanding and displacing the native populace. They are bringing a lot of non-oil money into the region.
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You can always buy any of the Palestinian designed CPUs out there.
Thanks, but I'll pass. I've heard the Palestinian CPUs have a tendency to overheat and blow themselves up, typically damaging other hardware components around them.
So you're fine buying from tech companies with Chinese factories (ie. pretty much all of them) but an Israeli R&D lab is unacceptable? I don't see the distinction.
Don't kid youself. None of those silicon-holding boxes you own were knitted by unicorns from a child's laughter.
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Maybe if a person considers Collective Punishment worse than low wages and unsafe working conditions it make sense. The latter seems pretty bad, but the former is a war crime.
Personally it all sounds pretty bad, and the other sides in the Isaeli-Arab conflicts aren't any better. I wish we could do without all of them.
Both AMD and ARM are pushing OpenCL in their GPUs. AMD is betting heavily on GPGPU, ARM has always been interested in offloading work to DSPs and suchlike in SoCs. This is nothing to do with AMD designing ARM chips in a post-x86 future, it's about both AMD and ARM emphasising GPU power over CPU power. AMD, because their GPUs are much faster than Intel's, and ARM because Atom (which loses quite badly on performance per Watt already) has no advantage over an ARM core in terms of raw performance if anything CPU-intensive is being offloaded to the GPU.
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Apartheid was a political system in South Africa, which was in use in the 20th century, mainly between the 1940s and the 1980s. In the system, the people of South Africa were divided by their race. Even though black people were the majority in the country, a small number of white people ruled them and held most political offices. There were laws that kept up the racial separation. The system of apartheid in South Africa was banned in 1994.
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This explains the recruiting frenzy that Intel Israel has been in for last few weeks. They're drying up the employee market.
Maybe I can put your mind to rest.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
There are so many half-truths, distortions and lies in what you hypothesise, that it is unpossible to formulate a refutation.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
iPads are actually knitted from children's laughter; the laughter is harvested in vast children farms on mainland China. Those children will never laugh again!
Israel is controlled by global ennemies of humanity, just like the US congress, german or french government
Oops. I hope your Tin Foil Hat was not made in Israel... otherwise, you're doomed.....
I was looking over the comments to see if anyone was aware of this.
You're going to "shun" AMD products because they now have R&D facilities in Israel? If you avoided every product developed in Israel, you'd have almost nothing to "compute" with. It's not just semiconductor companies either -- Microsoft and Google have large setups in Israel as well. Facebook bought Snaptu a few months ago.
The Israeli economy is built around the tech sector.
Oh, and I'm Israeli, so don't forget to post some charming apartheid reply to this comment.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
So it's not like israel has jewish beaches and arab beaches. The comparison doesn't seem particularly apt to me.
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How can you be a "democracy" when you deny full status to non-Jews?
Ignorance is far too rampant for me to make a dent, but I'll try:
- Arab population in Israel: 1,271,000 (about 20% of the population)
- 84.9% of Israeli Arabs stated that Israel has a right to exist as an independent state
- 77% would rather live in Israel as Israeli citizens than in any other country in the world
There are 14 arab members of parliament in the Israeli Knesset (out of 120 members total)
Feel free to check the stats here. I'm Israeli and I work with arabs every day, in the tech sector. They send their children to Israeli schools, and vote for parliament like any other citizen. The only major difference is that they don't have to serve in the IDF unless they want to.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
South African apartheid didn't apply to "its own citizens", it applied to a white elite ruling over a (set of) black nation(s); it implemented "sovereignty" for the black South Africans under terms like "homelands" and "bantustans". And while the Palestinians of Gaza and the West Bank are not Israeli citizens, they are a population Israel has ruled over since 1967, and has effectively permanent sovereignty over. The whole of Palestine has been wholly Israel for 44 years, and given Israeli politics and US support, will continue to do so indefinitely. Israel can't have both rule over the Palestinians and independence from them.
And while Israel doesn't have "Jewish beaches and Arab beaches", it has "Israeli roads and Palestinian 'roads'", and a whole set of separate laws that apply differently to Jews than to Palestinians (whether Israeli citizens or not). The most obvious case is the fact that Palestinians are not permitted to emigrate to Israel (while Jews are, by law, guaranteed that right) and are excluded from buying most land held in public trust. And while building permits are ostensibly not segregated, denials of permits are almost exclusively given to Palestinians.
This is a very small sliver of a very long list.
Do you really think a half-ass boycott is going to end the Siege of Gaza?
Saying they're run by criminals so we should boycott them is like saying that we should freeze the Palestinian Authority's accounts because they elected Hamas. Collective punishment is a delicate issue.
This move by AMD is nothing other than an attempt to take advantage of the high levels of education in Israel (which, as has been commented on upthread, is a result of American aid and German reparations).
but haven't you heard of the holocaust? Jews need a homeland.
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Great the options are war crimes or war crimes.
Is there a reason these people are such assholes?
I have never said, "you know what lets go be total assholes to the neighbors." I have never though of stealing his house or his car.
And if this doesn't show the fix is in and serious money and or bribes is changing hands I don't know what does. I mean what other reason would a corp go "Hey, you know that place with suicide bombers and rockets raining down from the sky? Yeah lets build our new factory RIGHT THERE". The fact that otherwise sane companies are building in the middle of a warzone smells like some AIPAC/ US government meddling to me. I mean what moron builds in the middle of a place that has been pretty much in perpetual conflict for nearly 60 years?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Can an "Arab" marry a Jew?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Have you ever been there? No? I guess that's why you're an expert on it now.
First, you imagine Israel as a post-apocalyptic wasteland with daily suicide bombings. Then you build a whole fantasy world based on that imagined reality. Then you call other people morons.
You should read this: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony
This is what happens when education budgets are cut.
Is an "Arab" free to purchase and reside in any property, in any location of his choice?
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
This is the correct responce to the ill informed claims of the folks who have nothing better to do than spread heate.
Just to help you out with that ZOG theory, Macy's is having a 50% off sale on tin foil hats.
The statistics you quote are probably biased by the fact that most arabs living in Israel would be afraid of answering those questions truthfully for fear of persecution. Also it shouldn't be surprising that muslims want to live in their holy cities. A religious state implies institutionalised prejudice. Israel is and always will be fundamentally flawed.
More in http://www.middle-east-info.org/gateway.html
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Whoever moderated this "troll", assuming you know what "troll" means, I am impressed with your faith in the mental capacities of the people I'm apparently "trolling".
Oh, I get it. Good job.
For what it's worth, since I've unwittingly done "cheeks'" propaganda job for them, I'll go ahead and address the Holocaust too.
Holocaust: happened.
Committed: not by Palestinians, who bear no responsibility to shoulder the burden of making wrongs right.
Homeland: probably a good idea, especially in the context of the Holocaust.
"Jewish state": not the same thing as a homeland.
"Jewish state" in Palestine: produced, inevitably, ethnic cleansing, dispossession, and the colonial relationship that will make more ethnic cleansing and dispossession a constant and ongoing inevitability.
The Holocaust is a good defense of a Jewish safe-haven; it's an awful defense of an ethno-religious settler-colonial state created to engage in conquest.
Yes, I personally know of several such cases. It's not common, but it's not illegal.
Whenever in an argument, remember this.
Legally? Yes. Of course, if an Arab would try to buy a house in the middle of an orthodox neighborhood, it will be frowned upon, but such will be the case if I, a Jewish person, will buy a house in the middle of an Arab village.
Whenever in an argument, remember this.
Israel is not a country where people are persecuted for speaking their mind. If you would just look a couple of weeks back, many Arab citizens protested around the country to remember the Nakba. Do most of the Jewish Israelis agree with them? No. Did anyone interfere with their right for peaceful assembly? Not in the least. In places where the assemblies became violent, only there did the police intervene.
Whenever in an argument, remember this.
as long as they don't have a factory on occupied land
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So they don't crush peaceful protests, that hardly makes them a shining example of democracy. I bet the police's definition of 'peaceful' and 'appropriate force' tends to change depending on who is protesting. If a Jewish state is not going to treat Jews and 'Non-Jews' differently then what is the point of it exactly?
The point of a Jewish state is that for the first time in modern history, the Jewish people will have a place they are not discriminated against. The Jewish state is not meant to be a place where we discriminate others. Granted, things are not perfect, and I agree that it is easier being Jewish in Israel than Arab, but you can just pick any one of Israel's neighbors to see places where the government treats strangers, women and sometimes even its own citizens with a rough hand.
It's always funny when every small slip-up by Israel is covered and shown as a proof to the inhumanity of the Jewish state, when most (if not all) of the Arab states practice human-rights violation on a daily, if not hourly, basis; and with much worse offences.
Whenever in an argument, remember this.
The point of a Jewish state is that for the first time in modern history, the Jewish people will have a place they are not discriminated against.
That's just wrong. Jews can live quite happily in the US, UK, most of Europe, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc: places where everybody is protected equally. Also they could have created Israel somewhere else. Jews, Christians and Muslims all have equally valid claims to 'belonging' there.
The Jewish state is not meant to be a place where we discriminate others.
But that precisely what it must become! You cannot represent all groups equally when you promise to protect one of them above all.
Granted, things are not perfect, and I agree that it is easier being Jewish in Israel than Arab, but you can just pick any one of Israel's neighbors to see places where the government treats strangers, women and sometimes even its own citizens with a rough hand.
Sure by most standards Israel is better than most of it's neighbours, but that's not saying much. Countries run by dictators are a poor benchmark.
It's always funny when every small slip-up by Israel is covered and shown as a proof to the inhumanity of the Jewish state, when most (if not all) of the Arab states practice human-rights violation on a daily, if not hourly, basis; and with much worse offences.
As above. I'd argue Israeli's and Arabs aren't much different in their US versus THEM attitudes, though the Israeli's are a bit more sophisticated in how they go about it. There really is no reason for Israel to not join the rest of the civilised world and simply bestow equal rights for all. If the Jews are being discriminated against, the perpetrators get taken to court and/or go to jail. Jews are the majority, what do they have to fear?