US chipmaker Nvidia on Sunday announced plans to triple the size of its research and development presence in Beersheba, a city in the country’s south, and hire hundreds of additional Israeli staff.

The chip giant will move its current Beersheba R&D center to a newly built, nearby site, three times the size of its existing 1,000-square-meter facility. The new site, located at Beersheba’s Gav Yam high-tech park, covers about 3,000 sqm and is expected to be fully operational by the end of the first half of 2026.

As part of the expansion, Nvidia is seeking to hire hundreds of additional employees in the southern region, including chip developers, hardware and software engineers, architects, students, and university graduates.

Nvidia senior vice president Amit Krig said that the firm’s expansion in Beersheba reflects the chipmaker’s commitment to hunting for the “best engineers — wherever they are.”

“The new site will serve as a professional home for hundreds of additional developers from Beersheba and the surrounding area, who will be part of creating groundbreaking hardware and software technologies and advancing global innovation in artificial intelligence,” said Krig, who heads Nvidia’s R&D operations in Israel.

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