There's no US tech without Israel. Intel also has a large Israel presence and they [have had backdoors in their hardware before, though claim it was not on purpose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Assertions_that_ME_is_a_backdoor). Interestingly, the vulnerabilities in the [AMD equivalent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor#Reported_vulnerabilities) were reported by an Israeli company. Perhaps AMD crossed them and this was vengeance, or perhaps this was completely independent of any Mossad agenda. [Qualcomm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm#2025%E2%80%93present:_Further_acquisitions) also has a history of working with Israeli companies on R&D, as well as acquiring some of them. And if you thought "hey, maybe Apple, the only real competitor in the CPU space after the aforementioned, has no Israeli ties beyond just selling them products like everyone else", well unfortunately [Apple also has an Israel office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.#Offices). Guess what, [ARM itself has Israel ties](https://www.telco.com/news/softbank-subsidiary-arm-to-establish-labs-in-israel/) so you can't TRULY escape Israeli influence. Short of RISC-V taking off, there's no computing without Israel being involved in one way or another. Israel is also behind some of everyone's favourite apps, such as [Waze, formerly known as FreeMap Israel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze). Google has two offices in Israel, Microsoft straight up provides them military surveillance solutions and has a huge R&D office... And Oracle's CEO literally vetted potential US presidential candidates for Israel. It's not just American tech companies either. If you do want to make your own chips, you'd probably use TSMC, which has strategic ties with Israel. ASML, the company that provides TSMC with the ultra high tech EUV machines also has an Israel office, though it's not like you can make a backdoor with EUV tech... I think. But basically if you have a computing device of any sort, Israel has profited from it in some super minor way, even if it's just 0.0001%. **TL;DR**: If you use any major piece of software OR hardware that's not open source, Israel's probably had their grubby fingers in it.