Chip maker sets up engineering teams to work on system-on-chip, software for self-driving vehicle capabilities as part of US semiconductor's expanded R&D operations

Chip giant's R&D activities in Israel are already the firm’s largest outside the US; company currently employs about 3,000 people across 7 centers nationwide

Purchase comes two years after Nvidia bought Mellanox Technologies for $7 billion; Excelero team to join Nvidia's growing Israel operations

US firm, which completed acquisition of Israel’s Mellanox Technologies in 2020, to set up new CPU team

Local team sires Quantum-2, 'most advanced networking platform ever built,' to offer supercomputer performance

New center aims to boost the tech ecosystem in northern Israel by giving entrepreneurs access to the most advanced AI-based computing tools

Reuters: UK's digital minister Oliver Dowden says he has issued an 'intervention notice' over the sale of British chip designer ARM by Japan's SoftBank to Nvidia

Excluding massive $6.9 billion sale of Mellanox to Nvidia, the amount drops to $7.6 billion, still the highest exits value for first half in five years