Nvidia Expands Business in Israel

Nvidia is further strengthening its foothold in Israel and betting on the country as one of the pillars of its global artificial intelligence strategy. The US semiconductor group has announced plans to build a large new technology campus in northern Israel, destined to become one of the company's main research and development hubs worldwide.

According to local press reports, the complex will be able to accommodate more than 10,000 employees, a number that is roughly double Nvidia's current workforce in the country and a significant share of the group's global workforce. Construction is not expected to start until 2027 at the earliest, confirming a project that has been conceived on a long-term horizon. The deal is part of Nvidia's broader international expansion plan, which in recent years has accelerated investments in infrastructure, research and human capital to support the growth in demand related to Ai, data centres and high-performance computing. Israel has long been a strategic hub: here Nvidia has consolidated key competencies in chip design, acceleration software and artificial intelligence systems, thanks in part to the acquisition of Mellanox and the presence of a highly specialised technology ecosystem.

Founder and CEO Jensen Huang has repeatedly called Israel a 'second home' for the group, emphasising the value of the local talent pool and the country's ability to attract advanced research. The new campus, in management's intentions, should foster even closer collaboration between teams and become a hub for the development of technologies that will power the next generation of AI applications.

The announcement comes at a time when Nvidia continues to be one of the central players in the global race for artificial intelligence, but also against a backdrop of increasing focus on costs, infrastructure investments and the sustainability of the industry's growth models. The decision to strengthen its presence in Israel signals a willingness to focus on established centres of excellence, rather than simple quantitative expansion.

For the Israeli economy, the project represents further confirmation of the country's role as a global technology hub, capable of attracting long-term investment even in a phase of geopolitical uncertainty and cyclical slowdown in some areas of the tech sector. For Nvidia, it is a strategic piece in an industrial game that goes well beyond quarterly results and looks towards technological leadership in the next decade.