Back in September 2020, Nvidia announced its plans to acquire the British design house ARM Ltd for $40 Billion. Since then, the merger has been facing heavy scrutiny from both UK and US regulators with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) even proceeding with legal action against NVIDIA for partaking in a deal that the FTC believes would generate serious anticompetitive outcomes.

However, Nvidia seems adamant about the acquisition as the firm announced its entry into the CPU market by unveiling the Arm-based data center CPU dubbed the Nvidia Grace in 2021. The upcoming data center CPU is said to compete against Intel and AMD’s x86 based solutions.

Now, according to a new report by Globes, Nvidia has recently been on a hiring spree in Israel to recruit engineers for CPU development. The engineers are being recruited for a wide range of positions including hardware, software, and architecture development.

Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan has stated that “Israel, with its unique wealth of talent, is a key player in the global tech ecosystem, and we are excited to be creating a new CPU group here. We look forward to further growing our local R&D activities both in this area and in our extensive work supporting the local ecosystem through unique programs for startups and developers.”

According to Kagan’s statement, Nvidia is planning on making Israel its R&D stronghold for the upcoming ARM-based CPUs. The CPU group will join a variety of groups currently active in Israel, working on next-gen high-speed networking and HPC technologies, leading Nvidia’s DPU (Data Processing Unit) development, AI research, and more.

The company previously acquired the Israeli connectivity company Mellanox in April 2020 for $7 billion, which has made its workforce grow to 2,800 employees in the region. According to the recent report, the number will go up by hundreds in the coming year.

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