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Shoshanna Solomon is The Times of Israel s Startups and Business reporter
Intel CEO Tours New Mobileye Headquarters Building, in Jerusalem, Israel, May 2, 2021. (L) Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua and Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger.
Intel Corp.’s planned investments in Israel will “significantly extend” its research and development facilities locally and boost manufacturing capacity, the US tech giant said on Sunday, as its CEO Pat Gelsinger paid the country a one-day visit.
The company also said it is investing $400 million in Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based maker of self-driving technologies, for its new research and development campus. Intel acquired Mobileye in 2017 for $15.3 billion.
“I’ve been visiting Israel for four decades and it’s been amazing to see our growth from just four employees in 1974 to over 14,000 employees now. Intel Israel is a microcosm of our global company with investments and innovation across research, development and manufacturing at scale in one location
Major tech companies seek 4,000 developers in Israel
Intel development center head Karin Eibschitz Segal believes the chronic shortage in tech professionals in Israel can be overcome.
Intel has intensified the competition among major tech companies in Israel to recruit new high-tech employees. Intel s latest announcement that it is hiring 1,000 more developers this year, in addition to the 400 AI chip developers that its Habana Labs unit announced that it is seeking last week, and brings to 4,000 the number of tech developers being sought in Israel.
Other major tech companies in Israel who have announced big recruitment drives include Teva s main AI chip rival Nvidia, which announced that it is hiring 600 developers in Israel, while Google, which is setting up a chip development center in Israel is hiring an estimated 500 developers.
Today in European Tech: OneWeb secures $550 million, MessageBird extends round to $1 billion to bankroll a US acquisition, and more
Deals
- Through an extension of a previous round,
Dutch omnichannel communications platform MessageBird has now raised a whopping $1 billion. Continuing their shopping spree, MessageBird has entered a definitive agreement to purchase Colombia, Maryland-based predictive email platform SparkPost for $600 million.
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London-based bring-the-internet-to-everyone provider OneWeb has secured $550 million in financing from Parisian Eutelset, bringing the rounds’ total funding to $1.9 billion. Eutelsat is one of the world’s leading satellite operators, and with this funding of OneWeb, the company is obtaining an approximate 24% equity stake in the latter.
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