The current situation in Israel and Palestine is tragic, ugly, and quite capable of touching all our lives in some form soon. For tech workers there, it’s already had a devastating effect.
Several years ago, Nvidia bought an Israeli-American networking company called Mellanox for $7 billion, using it as the basis for a center that employs 3,000 people. As reported Friday by CTech, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wrote to Israeli employees to offer his condolences to Mellanox founder Eyal Waldman, whose daughter Danielle was among those slaughtered by Hamas militants at the Supernova music festival—her partner, former Nvidia employee Noam Shai, also was killed.
