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Google has formed a new team in Israel to develop artificial intelligence chips for robots and autonomous systems, according to a report by Israeli daily Haaretz.
The team is led by Guy Kaminitz, an executive at Israeli chip company Hailo, Haaretz reported on Saturday. Several Hailo engineers have joined him on the project, according to the report.
The US technology giant has also hired Ido Bukspan, a former NVIDIA Israel executive and chief executive of Israeli data infrastructure company Pliops, to work on data networking chips, the report said.
Google has brought together a group of senior executives and hardware engineers for the chip effort in Israel, according to Haaretz.
The company started chip development operations in Israel under its Google Cloud division in 2021. It currently employs around 700 engineers split between Tel Aviv, a coastal city on Israel's Mediterranean shoreline, and Haifa, a northern port city roughly 90 kilometers (56 miles) up the coast, where the engineers work on chips and computing infrastructure, the report added.
The newly formed team is working on an AI chip intended to run artificial intelligence tasks directly on devices instead of on cloud servers, an approach that could speed up processing and reduce dependence on cloud computing resources, according to Haaretz.
Kaminitz announced on social media that he has taken charge of the initiative.
Google declined to comment on the matter when approached by Haaretz, the report said.
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