US tech giant Google is beefing up its Israel development operations with a new team dedicated to building artificial intelligence chips designed for robots and autonomous systems.

Google recently hired Guy Kaminitz, former vice president of R&D at Israel-based AI chipmaker Hailo, to lead the new team in Israel as silicon engineering head. That’s after US semiconductor firm Microchip Technology bought struggling Hailo at the end of July, which was undergoing workforce reductions.

“I have joined Google to lead a new silicon engineering initiative within the Edge AI domain,” Kaminitz wrote in a recent LinkedIn post. “We are building a world-class engineering group here in Israel from the ground up.”

Google is actively hiring dozens of engineers for a range of roles to build a team for developing AI chips for so-called network edge devices, such as robots and other autonomous systems. Among the open positions are engineers for silicon validation, automation and physical design, verification and machine learning hardware architecture.

Google was not available for comment when contacted by The Times of Israel.

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