BDS-1000 Dossier: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

Key Findings

• Economic: AMD Ventures, AMD’s corporate venture arm, made a new $50 million Series A investment in Teramount, a Jerusalem-headquartered Israeli silicon-photonics startup, on 29 July 2025 - after the July 2024 ICJ advisory opinion and the November 2024 ICC arrest warrants - making it the most recent confirmed instance of AMD-linked capital deployment into an Israeli entity.¹²
• Military (dual-use/export control): AMD’s Xilinx product line markets defense-grade FPGAs and adaptive SoCs (Virtex-7Q, Artix-7 XQ, Versal) globally for missile, avionics and electronic-warfare applications, and in February 2020 Israeli customs seized two shipments of AMD graphics processors from an Israeli reseller, CNG Labs, on dual-use grounds - a case that led the U.S. Commerce Department to add CNG to its “unverified list” in March 2023; AMD itself was not named in the enforcement action.³⁴⁵
• Political: No public evidence identified of any AMD corporate statement on the Israel-Gaza conflict, in contrast to AMD’s explicit March 2022 statement suspending sales into Russia and Belarus following sanctions.⁶
• Not found: No public evidence identified of a direct AMD/Xilinx contract with Israel’s Ministry of Defence, IDF, or security services, and AMD does not appear in the OHCHR settlement-business database, the UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report, the BDS Movement’s tech-boycott list, or the AFSC “Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide” list.⁷⁸⁹¹⁰

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• AMD’s only confirmed Israel-registered legal entities are “AMD Advanced Micro Devices Israel Ltd” (reg. no. 513515247, incorporated 2004, status “voluntarily eliminated,” last annual report 2018 - low-confidence registry record) and Xilinx Israel Limited (Holon), recorded as 100%-owned in AMD’s FY2023 Form 10-K Exhibit 21.1.¹²¹⁴
• AMD’s Israel presence originates from the October 2010 acquisition of Graphic Remedy Ltd. (Tel Aviv, ~$5 million), followed by a June 2011 R&D center opening in Ramat Gan.¹³¹⁵
• AMD does not appear in the OHCHR settlement-business database, the UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report, the BDS Movement’s technology-boycott list, or the AFSC Gaza-genocide company list.⁷⁸⁹¹⁰

Executive Summary

AMD is a U.S.-headquartered, fabless semiconductor design company whose documented relationship to Israel consists almost entirely of ordinary commercial research-and-development activity rather than military, security, or state-partnership engagement. Its Israeli footprint traces to two corporate-development events: the 2010 acquisition of Tel Aviv startup Graphic Remedy, which produced a Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv R&D center opened in 2011, and the February 2022 acquisition of Xilinx, which brought a pre-existing Israeli subsidiary, Xilinx Israel Limited (Holon), into AMD’s corporate structure.^13151614 Both are civilian engineering operations; no public evidence identified of AMD operating factories, data centers, or logistics hubs in Israel, and no public evidence identified of any AMD presence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.¹⁴³

The strongest documented vectors are economic and dual-use/export-control in character rather than direct military-contracting. On the economic side, AMD Ventures invested $50 million (as part of a Series A round) in the Israeli silicon-photonics startup Teramount in July 2025, a transaction occurring after the ICJ’s July 2024 advisory opinion and the ICC’s November 2024 arrest warrants - the most recent and clearest instance of new AMD-linked capital flowing into Israel.¹² On the dual-use side, AMD’s Xilinx business unit markets a global line of defense-grade FPGAs (Virtex-7Q, Artix-7 XQ, Versal, among others) qualified to military reliability standards, and one documented export-control episode connects AMD hardware to Israel: a February 2020 Israeli customs seizure of AMD graphics-processor shipments from Israeli reseller CNG Labs, on the grounds that the processors were dual-use and could support drone or advanced-computing applications, followed by the U.S. Commerce Department’s addition of CNG to its “unverified list” in March 2023.³⁴⁵ AMD itself was not named as a subject of that enforcement action, and the episode involves a third-party reseller rather than a direct AMD-to-Israeli-military transaction.⁵

What is not supported by the evidence record is any direct contracting relationship with Israel’s Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police; any Israel-specific defence-grade FPGA sale, tender, or SIBAT listing; any confirmed AMD/Xilinx component inside a named Israeli weapons platform (Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, or IAI/Rafael/Elbit systems); any AMD data-centre or cloud-infrastructure role comparable to Project Nimbus; and any AMD role in Israeli military AI/targeting systems such as “Lavender.”¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹ AMD is likewise absent from every major civil-society tracking resource reviewed across the four domain audits: the OHCHR settlement-business database, the UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 “economy of genocide” report, the BDS Movement’s “No Tech for Oppression, Apartheid or Genocide” list, the AFSC “Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide” list, and Wikipedia’s “List of companies involved in the Gaza war.”^782091021 No public evidence identified of any AMD corporate statement addressing the Israel-Gaza conflict - a notable silence set against AMD’s explicit March 2022 statement suspending product sales into Russia and Belarus following sanctions.⁶

The resulting profile is one of a company with a real, ongoing, but narrowly civilian-commercial footprint in Israel (R&D engineering, one 2025 venture investment) alongside a generic, globally-marketed dual-use defence-electronics product line whose only documented Israel-specific friction point is an export-control dispute involving a reseller, not AMD directly. This evidentiary pattern - meaningful economic engagement, negligible-to-absent military/digital/political engagement - is reflected in the BDS-1000 Final V4 score of BRS 412, Tier C (High), driven overwhelmingly by the Economic domain (V=6.13) against much lower Military (2.09), Political (0.15), and Digital (0.09) domain scores.

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

AMD is a Delaware-incorporated, NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with no corporate parent of its own.¹¹ Its Israeli corporate footprint consists of two identified entities: “AMD Advanced Micro Devices Israel Ltd” (reg. no. 513515247), a low-confidence, apparently defunct registry record incorporated in 2004 with status “voluntarily eliminated,” and Xilinx Israel Limited, a Holon-registered subsidiary acquired as part of AMD’s February 2022 purchase of Xilinx and confirmed as 100%-owned in AMD’s FY2023 Exhibit 21.1 filing.¹²¹⁴²⁸ Both entities function as R&D/engineering vehicles rather than manufacturing, sales, or trading operations; AMD’s FY2015 Form 10-K separately disclosed Israel as a location for “additional design and development engineering teams.”²⁹ As of the current review, AMD’s corporate locations page continues to list Israel among its global offices, and at least one active Israel-based job listing (FPGA Field Application Engineer, Hod HaSharon) was identified in 2026, indicating an ongoing rather than discontinued presence.³⁰³¹ No franchise, distributor, or reseller relationship specific to Israeli settlements was identified in AMD’s published authorized-distributor network.³²

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

AMD’s Xilinx business unit manufactures and markets a defense-grade/mil-spec FPGA and adaptive SoC product line - including Virtex-7Q, Artix-7 XQ, Kintex UltraScale+ XQ, and Versal - marketed globally for missiles and munitions systems, avionics, milcomms, electronic warfare, and ISR applications, qualified to standards such as Mil-Std-883 Group D.³⁴ This marketing is generic and worldwide in scope; no source identifies an Israel-specific or purpose-built variant. Xilinx FPGAs are a documented component of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter avionics supplied to prime contractor Lockheed Martin for a range of allied air forces; Israel operates the F-35 under a separate Foreign Military Sale, but no source breaks out an Israel-specific allocation, making this an indirect, multi-tier, and Israel-unverified relationship.²² The one direct, Israel-specific episode is the CNG Labs case: a February 2020 Israeli customs seizure of AMD GPU shipments from an Israeli reseller on dual-use grounds, followed by the U.S. Commerce Department’s March 2023 addition of CNG to its “unverified list.”⁵

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of any direct contract, tender award, or memorandum of understanding between AMD/Xilinx and Israel’s Ministry of Defence, the IDF, the Israel Prison Service, or the Israel Border Police, and no public evidence identified of an AMD or Xilinx listing in Israel’s SIBAT defence-export directory.¹⁷ AMD itself was not named as a subject in the CNG Labs enforcement action, which concerned a reseller, not AMD directly.⁵ No verified, named supply relationship was identified between AMD/Xilinx and Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries, or Rafael Advanced Defense Systems; IAI’s ELM-2084 radar and Rafael’s SPIKE missile family show no public chip-supplier attribution to AMD/Xilinx, and Elbit is described as a vertically integrated manufacturer designing most components in-house.¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• CNG Labs (Kiryat Shmona reseller) - Israeli customs seizure (Feb 2020) and U.S. BIS “unverified list” addition (March 2023) of AMD GPU shipments.⁵
• Kameleon Security - pre-acquisition Xilinx partnership on ProSPU secure-FPGA cybersecurity product; civilian application, continuation status unconfirmed.²³
• Lockheed Martin / F-35 program - global Xilinx FPGA avionics supply chain; Israel is one of many F-35 operator states, with no Israel-specific breakout identified.²²
• IAI, Rafael, Elbit Systems - reviewed for supply-chain attribution; no named AMD/Xilinx component link identified in any case.¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

AMD’s digital-domain footprint in Israel is limited to R&D/engineering activity inherited via the Graphic Remedy and Xilinx acquisitions, plus one identified technology collaboration: AMD’s AI-accelerator interoperability partnership with NeuReality, a Tel Aviv AI-inferencing startup, publicized via a co-branded press release with IBM and coverage in the Times of Israel’s sponsored “Spotlight” section; the current (post-2022) status of this collaboration is unconfirmed.³³³⁴ Separately, under the U.S. “AI Diffusion Rule,” Israel was categorized as a Tier 2 country requiring licenses for imports of advanced AI processors above certain thresholds - reporting on this framework centered on Intel’s Israel-developed Gaudi chips, but the structure would apply equally to AMD Instinct accelerators, with AMD-specific impact unconfirmed; separately, U.S. authorities reportedly delayed export licenses for Nvidia and AMD AI GPUs destined for Middle East markets, though the Israel-specific nexus and current status could not be confirmed.³⁵³⁶

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified that AMD operates, leases, or co-locates data-centre infrastructure within Israel, and no public evidence identified linking AMD to Project Nimbus, the Google/Amazon cloud-computing contract with the Israeli government.³⁷ No public evidence identified of AMD supplying facial-recognition, biometric, or surveillance technologies, nor of any AMD role in Israeli military AI-targeting systems such as “Lavender” or “Where’s Daddy?” - journalistic investigations of those systems describe infrastructure and software support from other vendors.¹⁷ No public evidence identified of AMD holding customer relationships with Israeli cybersecurity vendors (Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NSO-adjacent firms) for its own enterprise stack; the one identified relationship (Kameleon) runs the opposite direction, with Xilinx as the technology supplier to an Israeli firm.²³

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Xilinx Israel Ltd. (Holon) - 100%-owned AMD subsidiary, R&D/engineering entity.¹⁴²⁸
• NeuReality (Tel Aviv) - AI-accelerator interoperability collaboration, co-branded with IBM; post-2022 status unconfirmed.³³³⁴
• Kameleon Security - supply-side cybersecurity co-development (ProSPU), civilian application.²³
• Intel (comparator) - named in AI Diffusion Rule reporting for Gaudi chips; no AMD-specific Israel licensing action confirmed.³⁵

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

AMD’s economic nexus is the strongest of the four domains, anchored in three confirmed transactions: the October 2010 acquisition of Graphic Remedy (~$5 million), the June 2011 opening of the resulting Ramat Gan R&D center, and the February 2022 acquisition of Xilinx, which brought the 100%-owned Xilinx Israel Limited subsidiary into AMD’s group.^13151614 The most recent and most significant economic event is AMD Ventures’ $50 million Series A co-investment in Teramount, an Israeli silicon-photonics startup based in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim technology park, announced 29 July 2025 - after the ICJ’s July 2024 advisory opinion and the ICC’s November 2024 arrest warrants, making it the clearest instance of new AMD-linked capital deployed into Israel during the conflict period.¹²

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

AMD’s Israel presence is consistently framed in trade press as an R&D/engineering location rather than a discrete revenue market or manufacturing base; no investor-materials reference to Israel as a distinct market segment was identified, and AMD’s scale in Israel is explicitly smaller than comparator Intel, whose $25 billion Kiryat Gat expansion represents roughly 5.5% of Israeli high-tech exports.³⁸ AMD was notably absent from a compiled list of roughly twenty technology companies and funds that publicly offered support or donations to Israel following October 2023.³⁹ No public evidence identified of AMD underwriting Israeli sovereign debt, distributing Israel Bonds, or holding Israeli Preferred Technological Enterprise tax status. A name-collision entity, “AMD Real Estate Development & Investment Ltd.” - a subsidiary of Israel’s Dan Group active in East Jerusalem settlement-neighborhood construction (Armon HaNatziv, Pisgat Ze’ev, French Hill) - has no corporate connection to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., and is documented solely to rule out the name overlap.⁴⁰ AMD’s Responsible Minerals Sourcing program applies OECD CAHRA due diligence to conflict minerals but is focused on the DRC region, with no reference to Israel, the West Bank, or Gaza.⁴¹ AMD and Xilinx could not be confirmed as present or absent in the PAX “Companies Arming Israel and Their Financiers” report or the “Don’t Buy Into Occupation” report due to document-access limitations - an inconclusive gap rather than a negative finding.⁴²⁴³

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Graphic Remedy Ltd. (Tel Aviv) - acquired 2010, ~$5 million; basis for the Ramat Gan R&D center.¹³²²
• Xilinx Israel Limited (Holon) - 100%-owned subsidiary per FY2023 10-K Exhibit 21.1.¹⁴
• Teramount (Jerusalem, Har Hotzvim) - AMD Ventures Series A co-investment, July 2025 ($50M round, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies).¹²
• “AMD Real Estate Development & Investment Ltd.” (Dan Group) - unrelated name-collision entity, East Jerusalem settlement construction; explicitly not Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.⁴⁰

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

AMD’s political-domain footprint is defined chiefly by absence: no public evidence identified of any AMD corporate statement - general or specific - addressing the Israel-Gaza conflict or the events of October 7. This absence is thrown into relief by AMD’s explicit, named March 2022 statement suspending product sales and distribution into Russia and Belarus following sanctions - evidence that AMD has taken public, geopolitically-tied corporate action in at least one comparable conflict context.⁶ AMD publishes an Israel-specific employee benefits summary for its Israeli workforce, though no public evidence identified of a specific reservist-leave pay policy.⁴⁴

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

AMD does not appear in the UN OHCHR settlement-business database (158 enterprises as of the September 2025 update), whose verified U.S. technology-sector entries are Airbnb, Booking Holdings, Expedia Group, TripAdvisor, and Motorola Solutions - not AMD.⁷³⁸ The UN Special Rapporteur’s July 2025 report and its published company-list summary name Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and other firms, but not AMD, Intel, or Nvidia.⁸²⁰ The BDS Movement’s “No Tech for Oppression, Apartheid or Genocide” campaign names Intel explicitly while AMD is absent; the AFSC “Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide” list names Intel and Nvidia as chipmakers with Israeli R&D ties but does not name AMD.⁹¹⁰ No public evidence identified of AMD operations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights; AMD’s Ramat Gan R&D center sits within Israel’s internationally recognized 1967 borders.¹³¹⁵ No public evidence identified of AMD lobbying tied to Israel/Palestine legislation, anti-BDS certifications, donations to FIDF/JNF or reservist funds, or any executive meeting with Israeli government officials; OpenSecrets records no outside AMD political spending in the 2024 cycle.⁴⁵⁴⁶ By contrast, comparable technology employers have taken visible internal-governance action on Israel-Gaza employee speech - Amazon’s October 2025 termination of Ahmed Shahrour and Microsoft’s termination of Hossam Nasr and Abdo Mohamed in 2023 - with no equivalent AMD case identified.⁴⁷ AMD’s Business & Human Rights Resource Centre profile records a 2024 KnowTheChain ICT benchmark score of 35/100, with top issues including “Security Issues & Conflict Zones,” but the underlying documented cases concern Russia/Ukraine chip-tracing, not Israel-Palestine.⁴⁸

Named Entities and Evidence Map

• Lisa T. Su (Chair/CEO) and AMD board - no disclosed Israel-related affiliations identified in 2025 proxy statement biographical review.¹¹
• Comparator: Intel - named explicitly by BDS Movement and AFSC lists where AMD is absent.⁹¹⁰
• Comparator: Amazon/Microsoft - documented employee-speech termination actions on Israel-Gaza; no AMD equivalent identified.⁴⁷
• Tower Semiconductor - separate, independent Israeli foundry with no ownership or manufacturing relationship to AMD (whose foundry partners are TSMC and Samsung).⁴⁹

BDS-1000 Score (V4)

• V_MAX: 6.13 Sum_OTHERS: 2.33
• BRS Score: 412 Tier: C (High)

The score is driven overwhelmingly by Economic, whose high Impact (7.8) and Proximity (8.5) reflect AMD’s confirmed, ongoing corporate-development and venture-capital transactions inside Israel - most recently the July 2025 Teramount investment made after the ICJ opinion and ICC warrants - combined with the wholly-owned Xilinx Israel subsidiary. Military scores substantially lower, reflecting a documented dual-use export-control episode and globally-marketed defense-grade FPGA products but no confirmed direct Israeli defence contract, while Digital and Political score near-zero, reflecting the near-total absence of digital-infrastructure and political-alignment evidence. Per BDS-1000 method, the composite BRS score is built from the maximum domain score (V_MAX) plus a damped contribution from the remaining domains (Sum_OTHERS), scaled to the 0–1000 index; all four domain scores use scale-free Impact × Magnitude × Proximity multipliers built exclusively from evidence documented in the underlying domain audits and were fixed following human vetting.

Methodology Note

• All claims in this dossier trace exclusively to the four domain audits (Military, Digital, Economic, Political); where those audits found nothing, this dossier states “No public evidence identified” rather than inferring absence of a relationship from absence of information.
• Scoring is scale-free: Impact (I) reflects the type of activity documented (e.g., dual-use export-control episode vs. direct weapons-system supply), Magnitude (M) reflects its scale, and Proximity (P) reflects how directly the activity connects AMD to the Israeli military, state, or occupation apparatus.
• A temporal-mitigation rule applies: divested, discontinued, or unconfirmed-as-ongoing relationships (e.g., the Kameleon ProSPU product line, the NeuReality collaboration) are carried with their audits’ own “status unconfirmed” caveats rather than scored as active.
• Entity attribution is strict: no transitive guilt is applied. The “AMD Real Estate Development & Investment Ltd.” Who Profits entry, a Dan Group subsidiary with no corporate link to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., is documented and explicitly excluded from scoring.
• Where an activity plausibly touches both economic and political/settlement dimensions, dual-counting across Economic and Political is permitted by method; no settlement-operation dual-count applies to AMD, as no settlement-linked AMD activity was identified.
• Unverified or unresolved items flagged in the source audits (e.g., the CNG Labs case’s reseller-vs-AMD distinction, the AI Diffusion Rule’s AMD-specific impact, the PAX/DBIO “inconclusive gap”) are carried into this dossier with those same qualifications rather than hardened into firm findings.

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