The campus will be built on a 90-dunam (22-acre) plot purchased by Nvidia for about NIS 90 million ($29 million), according to the Israel Land Authority.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsrael is home to some of the world\u2019s most brilliant technologists and has become Nvidia\u2019s second home,\u201d Huang said. \u201cThis investment reflects our deep and enduring commitment to our families in Israel and their unique contributions to the AI era.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nvidia has not said how much it expects to spend on the center, beyond calling it a \u201clong-term, multibillion shekel investment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t Nvidia\u2019s R&D activities in Israel are already the firm\u2019s largest outside of the US. The chipmaker employs over 5,000 workers in Israel in seven R&D centers, from nearby Yokne\u2019am, the headquarters of Mellanox, which was acquired by Nvidia in 2020, to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ra\u2019anana and Beersheba in the south.<\/p>\n Many of Nvidia\u2019s high-end processors and networking chips, essential for training the largest AI models, are developed at its R&D centers in Israel. As global tech firms including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla race to build AI data centers and dominate the emerging technology, demand for Nvidia\u2019s most advanced processors is surging.<\/p>\n After Nvidia announced a plan to expand its presence in Israel in July, the Israel Land Authority proposed numerous potential plots that would be suitable for the new R&D campus.<\/p>\n Kiryat Tivon is an upper-middle class community of less than 20,000 about 30 minutes from Haifa by car. It sits just to the north of Yokne\u2019am Illit, where several tech firms have established offices.<\/p>\n \t Israel views the establishment of Nvidia\u2019s R&D center in Kiryat Tivon as a catalyst to bring more tech jobs to areas outside of the crowded Tel Aviv region, which remains the country\u2019s central high-tech hub.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are proud and pleased by Nvidia\u2019s decision to build its new campus in Kiryat Tivon,\u201d Ido Greenblum, head of the Kiryat Tivon regional council said in an e-mailed statement. \u201cWe offered a winning location, combining a green environment, high quality of life, a strong education system, and excellent transportation access.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are committed to turning the partnership with Nvidia into new opportunities for residents of the entire region,\u201d Greenblum promised.<\/p>\n Greenblum said the council is working to create an infrastructure that includes small businesses, hotels and restaurants, which will serve the campus, Kiryat Tivon residents, and the entire area.<\/p>\n The appetite for Nvidia\u2019s chips has been driving the company\u2019s stock price rapidly since early 2023, turning it into the world\u2019s\u00a0first $5 trillion company\u00a0at the end of October.<\/p>\n \t \u201cNvidia\u2019s growth in Israel has been remarkable, driven by the extraordinary talent and engineering excellence of our teams,\u201d said Amit Krig, Nvidia senior vice president of software engineering and Israel site leader.<\/p>\n At the end of October, Nvidia announced plans to triple the size<\/a> of its R&D presence in Beersheba, a city in the country\u2019s south, and hire hundreds of additional Israeli staff. \u00a0The new site, located at Beersheba\u2019s Gav Yam tech park, covers about 3,000 sqm and is expected to be fully operational by the end of the first half of 2026.<\/p>\n Alongside its R&D operations, Nvidia has made a number of mega acquisition deals in Israel over the past decade. In December 2024, the chipmaker completed the purchase of Israeli AI workload management startup Run:ai for an estimated $700 million.<\/p>\n It marked Nvidia\u2019s largest acquisition in the country since buying Israel\u2019s Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a maker of high-speed servers and storage switching solutions used in supercomputers globally, for a massive $7 billion in 2020.<\/p>\n
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