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AI & DataHardware & Semiconductors 103 CITED SOURCES UPDATED 2026-09-08 METHOD V6.5
BDS-1000 Score 601 /1000 B Tier B - Severe
Military ↗ 0.00 Digital ↗ 0.00 Economic ↗ 7.00 Political ↗ 3.14
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Key Findings

  • Economic: AMD maintains Israeli R&D and engineering ties originating with its 2010 acquisition of Graphic Remedy, retains Xilinx Israel Ltd. as a wholly owned subsidiary, and AMD Ventures participated in Teramount’s 2025 Israeli funding round.1, 2, 3, 4
  • Political: AMD’s documented Israeli presence is commercial R&D activity, while no public evidence identified of Israel/Palestine corporate statements, Israel-related lobbying, military-welfare donations, or settlement operations.5, 6
  • Military: AMD markets Xilinx-derived defence-grade FPGAs globally, but no public evidence identified of a direct AMD/Xilinx contract, procurement award, or verified component role in an Israeli military or security system.7, 8
  • Not found: Within the reviewed Israel/Palestine record, no public evidence identified of an AMD military, intelligence, Project Nimbus, surveillance, settlement, or occupied-territory technology nexus.8, 9, 10

Target Profile

FieldDetail
Company NameAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)
JurisdictionDelaware, United States.11
HeadquartersSanta Clara, California, United States.12
SectorPublic semiconductor company; fabless semiconductor design, including CPUs, GPUs, adaptive SoCs and FPGAs.12, 13
OwnershipNASDAQ-listed, widely held public company; AMD is the ultimate parent and has no corporate parent.11, 12
Key Executives / GovernanceDr. Lisa T. Su, Chair and CEO; board members disclosed in AMD’s 2025 proxy include Nora M. Denzel, Michael P. Gregoire, Joseph A. Householder, John W. Marren, Jon A. Olson, Abhi Y. Talwalkar, and Elizabeth W. Vanderslice.14
Israeli-Nexus SummaryIsraeli R&D activity following the Graphic Remedy acquisition, ownership of Xilinx Israel Ltd., and a documented 2025 AMD Ventures investment in Israeli startup Teramount; no verified direct defence, digital-surveillance, settlement, or Israeli state-security relationship identified.1, 2, 3, 8, 9

Executive Summary

AMD is a US semiconductor company with a documented, continuing commercial and engineering presence in Israel. Its Israeli nexus began with the acquisition of Tel Aviv-area graphics-tools developer Graphic Remedy in 2010, followed by the establishment of an R&D center in the Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv area in 2011. AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx in February 2022 also brought Xilinx Israel Ltd. into the group as a wholly owned subsidiary. AMD’s locations page and the job listings reviewed in the audits indicate ongoing Israeli activity; the audits do not establish current staffing numbers or a discrete Israel revenue figure.1, 2, 15, 16, 17, 18

The strongest documented nexus is economic rather than military or digital. AMD Ventures participated in Teramount’s $50 million Series A financing round announced in July 2025. The announcement identifies AMD Ventures as a participant, not the sole or lead investor; it does not state AMD’s individual investment amount or identify a military, state-surveillance, or occupied-territory deployment. AMD’s Israeli operations are consistently described as R&D and engineering activity, not a factory, data-center, logistics, consumer-retail, or distinct sales-market operation.3, 4, 16

AMD’s Xilinx-derived portfolio includes defence-grade FPGA and adaptive-SoC products marketed globally for aerospace and defence uses, including missile, avionics, electronic-warfare and ISR applications. This establishes a general dual-use and defence-product capability. It does not establish Israeli military supply: the audits found no public evidence of a direct AMD or Xilinx contract with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, police, prison service, or intelligence agencies; no verified supply relationship with Elbit, IAI, Rafael, or Israeli Military Industries; and no verified AMD/Xilinx role in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, or other named Israeli systems.7, 8, 19

The available record also does not support a direct digital-complicity finding. No public evidence identified that AMD operates Israeli data centers, participates in Project Nimbus, supplies Israeli state bodies with AI targeting, surveillance, offensive cyber, or autonomous decision-support systems, or is named in the reviewed reporting on “Lavender” or “Where’s Daddy?” systems. Nor was AMD identified in the reviewed OHCHR settlement-business database, the BDS Movement technology campaign, AFSC list, or other civil-society tracking sources cited by the audits.9, 10, 20, 21

The human-vetted V6.5 result is BRS 601, Tier B (Severe Complicity). The governing economic activity is AMD’s directly operated, continuing Israeli R&D presence; the subsidiary and Teramount investment are additional documented relationships. The political score reflects continued commercial engagement, including the July 2025 investment, after the rubric’s constructive-notice dates. Its magnitude remains bounded because the reviewed record identifies no institutional political counterparty. This assessment does not establish direct Israeli military, surveillance, settlement, or occupation-related supply.1, 2, 3, 16

Timeline of Relevant Events

DateEvent
October 2010AMD acquired Israeli graphics-debugging and simulation-tools developer Graphic Remedy for a reported approximately $5 million.1, 22
1 June 2011AMD announced establishment of an R&D center in the Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv area, focused at the time on next-generation parallel-computing platforms and Fusion APU ecosystem work.2, 22
February 2020Israeli customs seized two shipments of older AMD graphics processors from reseller CNG Labs in an export-control dispute; the matter concerned proposed exports to the Netherlands and California, not an Israeli military end user or an enforcement action against AMD.23
14 February 2022AMD completed its all-stock acquisition of Xilinx, bringing Xilinx’s pre-existing Israeli operations into AMD’s corporate group.15, 24
27 March 2023The US Bureau of Industry and Security added CNG Labs to its Unverified List. AMD was not named as the subject of that enforcement action.23
29 July 2025Teramount announced a $50 million Series A round in which AMD Ventures participated alongside other investors; the total round is not AMD’s individual investment amount.3, 4

Corporate Overview

AMD is a Delaware-incorporated, NASDAQ-listed semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is a fabless semiconductor design company. Its relevant product portfolio includes processors, graphics processors, adaptive SoCs, and FPGAs, including Xilinx-derived products following the Xilinx acquisition.11, 12, 13, 15

AMD’s confirmed Israeli-origin corporate assets are the Graphic Remedy team and its successor Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv R&D operation, plus Xilinx Israel Ltd. AMD’s FY2023 subsidiary schedule identifies Xilinx Israel Ltd. as 100%-owned. A commercial registry aggregator also lists “AMD Advanced Micro Devices Israel Ltd.” as voluntarily eliminated; because the audit could not independently verify that registry record directly, it is treated as low-confidence and not relied on to establish an active AMD entity.1, 2, 16, 25

The audits identify no franchise relationship, no Israeli corporate parent, no Israeli government ownership, no state-held golden share, and no Israeli government board appointee. They also identify no AMD facility in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, or an Israeli settlement. Xilinx Israel Ltd. is listed in Holon; AMD’s established R&D center is described in the Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv area.11, 16, 26

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

AMD markets Xilinx-derived defence-grade FPGA and adaptive-SoC lines globally for aerospace and defence applications. The cited marketing includes uses such as missiles and munitions, avionics, military communications, electronic warfare, and ISR, and refers to military-reliability qualification including Mil-Std-883 Group D. This is evidence of a global defence-capable product line, not evidence of an Israel-specific sale or modified product.7, 19

One Israel-linked export-control event concerns CNG Labs, an Israeli reseller from which customs seized two shipments of AMD GPUs in February 2020. The products were described as older, circa-2011 processors, and the proposed shipments were bound outside Israel. The subsequent US Unverified List action was against CNG, not AMD. The audit does not identify an Israeli military end user, AMD licence application, or direct AMD transaction with Israeli security forces.23

Xilinx FPGAs have been reported as components in F-35 avionics supplied through Lockheed Martin. Israel operates F-35 aircraft under a separate Foreign Military Sale arrangement, but the reviewed sources do not allocate Xilinx units to Israel or establish an AMD/Xilinx-to-Israel supply chain. The audit therefore treats this as an indirect, Israel-unverified multi-tier relationship rather than direct evidence.27

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The strongest defence is that no public evidence identified of any direct AMD or Xilinx contract, tender award, memorandum of understanding, export licence, end-user certificate, or procurement relationship with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, or intelligence bodies.8

No public evidence identified of a verified named supply relationship with Elbit Systems, IAI, Rafael, or Israeli Military Industries. Available materials on Iron Dome radar, Rafael’s SPIKE family, and Elbit’s vertical integration do not disclose an AMD/Xilinx component attribution. No equivalent Israel-specific teardown or procurement evidence was found for Israeli strategic platforms.8, 28, 29

The generic military marketing of defence-grade products cannot, without verified end-user or platform evidence, establish supply to Israel. AMD is not a prime contractor or licensed manufacturer of Israeli weapons, and no public evidence identified of AMD supply of munitions, vehicles, drones, naval vessels, guidance electronics, fire-control equipment, radar, propulsion, or warhead materials to Israeli forces.7, 8

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

AMD’s digital-sector nexus is primarily its Israeli R&D and technology ecosystem footprint. AMD acquired Graphic Remedy and opened the Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv R&D center; Xilinx Israel Ltd. is an Israeli legal entity acquired with Xilinx. AMD also had a reported technology collaboration with Israeli AI-inferencing startup NeuReality, intended to interoperate with AMD accelerators. The post-2022 status of that relationship could not be confirmed. Xilinx separately partnered with Kameleon Security on a secure-FPGA “ProSPU” product for data-center and cloud OEM markets; the product’s continued status after AMD’s Xilinx acquisition is likewise unconfirmed.1, 2, 15, 16, 30, 31

AMD Ventures also participated in Teramount’s July 2025 financing round; the reviewed announcement describes commercial silicon-photonics technology and does not establish a state/security or military-tech digital deployment.3 These collaborations are described as civilian R&D, AI-infrastructure, or cybersecurity activity. The audits do not identify a documented kinetic, targeting, intelligence, police, or surveillance deployment arising from either collaboration.30, 31

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified that AMD operates, leases, or co-locates data-center infrastructure in Israel; its documented local presence consists of R&D and engineering offices. No public evidence identified of AMD participation in Project Nimbus, or of Israeli state cloud, data-sovereignty, or resilience contracts with AMD.9, 16

No public evidence identified of a direct AMD contract, partnership, or service agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, intelligence agencies, or law enforcement. No public evidence identified that AMD provided AI/ML systems, computer vision, autonomous decision support, offensive cyber tools, surveillance platforms, or target-generation systems to Israeli state actors. AMD was not identified in the reviewed reporting concerning “Lavender” or “Where’s Daddy?” systems.9, 10

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

AMD’s documented economic nexus consists of direct investment, local R&D operations, and corporate ownership. AMD acquired Graphic Remedy in 2010, established the Ramat Gan/Tel Aviv R&D center in 2011, and acquired Xilinx in 2022, including its wholly owned Israeli subsidiary Xilinx Israel Ltd.1, 2, 15, 16

AMD Ventures participated in Teramount’s $50 million Series A round announced in July 2025. Teramount is an Israeli silicon-photonics startup headquartered in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim technology park. The disclosed $50 million is the total funding round and does not establish AMD Ventures’ individual contribution. The announcement identifies no Israeli military, state-surveillance, or occupation-related use.3, 4

Available sources frame AMD’s Israel relationship as R&D and engineering rather than local manufacture, retail, consumer imports, or a separately reported Israel sales market. At least one Israel-based AMD/Xilinx job opening was identified in the audit, indicating ongoing activity, while no specific employee headcount was publicly established.16, 17

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of AMD factories, data centers, logistics hubs, agricultural sourcing, consumer-goods importing, Israeli sovereign-debt underwriting, Israel Bonds distribution, insurance, lending, or preferred-technological-enterprise designation. No public evidence identified of Israel-specific AMD revenue, profit repatriation, dividend, transfer-pricing, or intercompany-transfer figures.16, 32

No public evidence identified of AMD supply-chain sourcing from Israeli agricultural exporters or from settlements. AMD’s authorized-distributor listing reviewed in the audit contained no settlement-specific entries in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or Golan Heights. AMD’s minerals-sourcing materials use a conflict-minerals framework but do not identify Israel, Palestine, Gaza, the West Bank, or the Golan Heights as a sourcing focus.32, 33

A Who Profits entry for “AMD Real Estate Development & Investment Ltd.” concerns a Dan Group subsidiary involved in East Jerusalem settlement-neighborhood projects. The audit identifies this as a distinct entity with no corporate connection to Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; it is a name collision and must not be attributed to AMD.34

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

The political-domain record rests on the persistence and directness of AMD’s commercial presence in Israel rather than on documented political advocacy. The company’s R&D footprint arose from ordinary acquisition and expansion activity, and its ownership of Xilinx Israel Ltd. followed the Xilinx acquisition. AMD Ventures’ 2025 Teramount participation is the most recent documented AMD-linked capital deployment into an Israeli entity.1, 2, 3, 15, 16

AMD has published general corporate governance, human-rights, and corporate-responsibility materials. Its board proxy identifies Lisa Su as Chair and CEO and documents legacy Xilinx connections for Jon A. Olson and Elizabeth W. Vanderslice. The audits identify no disclosed board or executive ties to Israeli defence industry, military intelligence, settlement organizations, or pro-Israel advocacy groups.14, 35

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

No public evidence identified of an AMD corporate statement about Israel/Gaza, 7 October, or the wider Israel/Palestine conflict. AMD’s 2022 public suspension of sales into Russia and Belarus demonstrates that it has made conflict-related public statements in another context, but it does not itself establish a policy position regarding Israel/Palestine.5

No public evidence identified of Israel/Palestine lobbying, anti-BDS certifications, donations to Friends of the IDF, JNF, reservist funds, settlement-linked organizations, AIPAC, CUFI, or Christians for Israel. OpenSecrets data reviewed in the audit indicates no reported AMD outside political spending in the 2024 election cycle.6, 36

No public evidence identified of AMD operations in settlements or occupied territory, legal proceedings concerning such operations, state partnerships, Israeli government honors, formal academic-government partnerships, or meetings between Lisa Su and Israeli heads of state or government. AMD’s documented sites are within Israel’s pre-1967 borders in the available record.6, 20, 26

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

DomainIMPV-Domain Score
Military0.000.000.000.00
Digital0.000.000.000.00
Economic7.007.009.007.00
Political4.005.509.003.14

V_MAX is driven by the directly operated Core R&D activity in Economic: Impact 7, sustained full-scale Magnitude 7 and direct Proximity 9. Xilinx Israel ownership and the Teramount investment corroborate the economic relationship but are separate frames, not amounts added to the governing score. Political uses Business-as-Usual Impact 4 following the rubric’s constructive-notice adjustment for documented post-2024 continuation, including the July 2025 investment. Magnitude 5.5 reflects sustained commercial engagement without a qualifying institutional political counterparty; direct operations support Proximity 9.1, 2, 3, 16

Compared with the prior published V4 score of 524/C, the new result is 601/B. Military V falls from 2.09 to 0 because the previous global Xilinx/F-35 association does not establish an Israel-specific component outcome. Digital V falls from 0.09 to 0 because the commercial R&D and collaborations do not establish a qualifying digital deployment. Economic V rises from 6.13 to 7 through recalibration to continuing direct Core R&D, and political V rises from 0.15 to 3.14 through the documented commercial-presence and notice framing. These are evidence and rubric recalibrations; the military and digital reductions do not assert that AMD ended verified Israeli supply relationships.2, 3, 16, 27, 30, 31

Methodology Note

Footnotes

  1. https://www.khronos.org/news/permalink/amd-acquires-graphic-remedy-to-extend-its-technology-portfolio-and-opens-a ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  2. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-1000651071 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  3. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/07/29/3123151/0/en/Teramount-raises-50M-to-address-growing-demand-for-AI-infrastructure-optical-connectivity.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11

  4. https://techtime.news/2025/07/29/teramount-raises-50-million-led-by-amd-and-samsung-to-accelerate-silicon-photonics-manufacturing/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-amd-nvidia-tsmc-russia-stop-chip-sales-ukraine-sanction ↩ ↩2

  6. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/advanced-micro-devices/summary?id=D000023765 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. https://www.amd.com/en/solutions/aerospace-and-defense.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. https://mod.gov.il/en/press-releases/press-room/israel-mod-signs-multi-billion-dollar-contract-with-rafael-to-expand-serial-production-of-iron-dome-system ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  9. https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  10. https://bdsmovement.net/no-tech-oppression-apartheid-or-genocide ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  11. https://ir.amd.com/financial-information/sec-filings/content/0001193125-25-067170/d869673ddef14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  12. https://ir.amd.com/financial-information/sec-filings/content/0001193125-25-067170/d869673ddef14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. https://www.amd.com/en/products.html ↩ ↩2

  14. https://ir.amd.com/financial-information/sec-filings/content/0001193125-25-067170/d869673ddef14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2022-2-14-amd-completes-acquisition-of-xilinx.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  16. https://ir.amd.com/financial-information/sec-filings/content/0000002488-24-000012/ex21-10kfy23.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15

  17. https://il.linkedin.com/jobs/amd-jobs ↩ ↩2

  18. https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/locations.html ↩

  19. https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/products/adaptive-socs-and-fpgas/fpga/7-series/7-series-defense-grade-fpgas-product-brief.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  20. https://www.ohchr.org/en/business/bhr-database ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  21. https://afsc.org/gaza-genocide-companies ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  22. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/2011-06-01/ty-article/chip-giant-amd-establishing-r-d-center-in-ramat-gan/0000017f-e710-d62c-a1ff-ff7bf7710000 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  23. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-03-27/ty-article/red-flag-the-strange-case-of-an-israeli-computer-lab-flagged-by-the-u-s/00000187-1dc8-d7c4-ab8f-fdee9b040000 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  24. https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/xilinx-acquisition.html ↩

  25. https://en.checkid.co.il/company/AMD+ADVANCED+MICRO+DEVICES+ISRAEL+LTD-k8OaX48-513515247 ↩

  26. https://www.infobel.com/en/israel/xilinx_israel_ltd/holon/IL100158546-039003030/businessdetails.aspx ↩ ↩2

  27. https://www.militaryaerospace.com/commercial-aerospace/article/14227038/tens-of-thousands-of-xilinx-fpgas-to-be-supplied-by-lockheed-martin-for-f-35-joint-strike-fighter-avionics ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  28. https://www.iai.co.il/p/elm-2084-ms-mmr ↩ ↩2

  29. https://www.rafael.co.il/worlds/land/spike-5th-gen-precision-guided-tactical-missiles/ ↩ ↩2

  30. https://www.neureality.ai/pressrelease/ibm-amd-embrace-israeli-artificial-intelligence-technology ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  31. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3870610,00.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  32. https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/corporate-responsibility/responsible-minerals-sourcing.html ↩ ↩2

  33. https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/contacts/authorized-distributors/adaptive-computing-products.html ↩

  34. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/company/3656 ↩ ↩2

  35. https://www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/corporate/cr/human-rights-policy.pdf ↩

  36. https://doublethedonation.com/matching-gifts/amd-advanced-micro-devices ↩