List of multinational companies with research and development centres in Israel

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Google development center in Matam, Haifa
Alcatel-Lucent development center in Azorim technology park
BMC Software development center in Tel Aviv

There are over 380 R&D centers in Israel owned by multinational companies.[1]

Company Country Sector Major acquisitions and investments
3M  United States Electronics Attenti[2]
Alibaba  China Internet Infinity, Twiggle[3][4][5]
Amazon  United States Internet Annapurna Labs[6]
Vimeo  United States Internet R&D center
AOL  United States Internet 5min Media[7]
Mercedes-Benz  Germany Automobile R&D Center[8]
Yandex  Russia Internet KitLocate[9]
Amobee  Singapore Internet Kontera Technologies[10]
Apple  United States Consumer electronics Anobit,[11] PrimeSense[12]
Elastic NV  Netherlands Internet, Software R&D Center[13]
Applied Materials  United States Semiconductors Orbot Instruments, Opal Technologies,[14] Oramir Semiconductor[15]
ARM Holdings  United Kingdom Semiconductors Sansa Security[16]
Bosch  Germany Electronics
AT&T  United States Telecommunications Interwise [17]
Autodesk  United States Software R&D Center[18]
Toshiba  Japan Electronics, semiconductors, Information technology OCZ Storage Solutions[19]
Barclays  United Kingdom Financial services R&D Center[20]
Blackberry  Canada Telecommunications WatchDox[21][22]
BMC Software  United States Software New Dimension Software,[23] Identify Software[24]
Unilever  Netherlands Consumer goods
Broadcom  United States Semiconductors VisionTech, M-Stream, Siliquent Technologies, Dune Networks, Percello, Provigent, SC Square[25]
ChemChina  China Chemicals Makhteshim Agan[26]
Citigroup  United States Financial services R&D Center[27]
Cisco  United States Telecommunications CLASS Data Systems, HyNEX, Seagull Semiconductor, PentaCom, P-Cube, Riverhead Networks,[28] Intucell,[29] Sheer Networks,[30] NDS Group[31][32]
ST Engineering  Singapore Integrated engineering
Dassault Systèmes  France Software
Dell  United States Computer technology R&D center[33]
Dropbox  United States Internet Cloudon (2015)[34]
TDK  Japan Electronics
eBay  United States Internet Shopping.com, Fraud Sciences, The Gift Project[35]
EMC  United States Computer technology Kashya, nLayers, proActivity, Illuminator, ZettaPoint, Cyota,[36] XtremIO[37]
Facebook  United States Internet Onavo,[38] Pebbles Interfaces[39]
Gemalto  France Software
General Electric  United States Medical technology Nuclear and MR businesses of Elscint,[40] Diasonics Vingmed[41]
General Motors  United States Automotive
Google  United States Internet LabPixies, Quiksee, modu (patents only),[42] Waze[43]
Harman International Industries  United States Electronics Red Bend Software[44]
HP  United States Computer technology Indigo Digital Press, Scitex Vision, Nur Macroprints, Mercury Interactive, Shunra[45]
Huawei  China Telecommunications
IBM  United States Computer technology Ubique,[46] I-Logix,[47] XIV,[48] Guardium,[49] Diligent Technologies,[50] Storwize,[51] Worklight,[52] Trusteer[53] Cloudigo[54]
ICAP  United Kingdom Financial services Traiana[55]
Škoda Auto  Czechia Automobile
Infosys  India Information technology Panaya
Intel  United States Semiconductors DSPC[56] Envara,[57] Comsys,[58] InVision Biometrics,[59] Telmap,[60] Mobileye[61]
Intercontinental Exchange  United States Financial services SuperDerivatives[62]
Intuit  United States Software Check,[63] Porticor [64]
Jain Irrigation Systems  India Agricultural technology NaanDan Irrigation Systems[65]
John Deere  United States Agricultural technology
Johnson & Johnson  United States Medical technology
Kuang-Chi[66]  China Information technology Agent Vi,[67] Beyond Verbal,[68] eyeSight Technologies[69]
Legend[70]  China Information technology
Lenovo[71]  China Consumer electronics
LG  South Korea Consumer electronics
Marvell Technology Group  United States Semiconductors Galileo Technology[72]
McAfee  United States Software
Merck Group  Germany Pharmaceutical, life sciences, material sciences R&D Center,[73]

Healthcare BioIncubator,[74] ExploreBio Biotech Incubator,[75] PMatX Incubator,[76] QLight Nanotech,[77] Wiliot,[78] Metabomed,[79] ARTSaVIT,[80] Medisafe,[81] Neviah Genomics,[82] ChanBio[83] FeelIt[84] Pantheon Biosciences[85]

Micro Focus International  United Kingdom Software NetManage[86]
Microsoft  United States Software Maximal,[87] Peach Networks,[88] Whale Communications,[89] Gteko,[90] YaData,[91] 3DV Systems[92]
Monsanto  United States Agricultural technology Rosetta Green (2013)[93]
Motorola  United States Telecommunications Terayon,[94] Bitband[95]
Oracle  United States Software R&D Center
Nestlé   Switzerland Food processing Osem[96]
Nokia  Finland Telecommunications LANNET, Chromatis Networks, Mobilitec[97]
Nvidia  United States Semiconductors Mellanox Technologies[98]
PayPal  United States Internet R&D Center
PepsiCo  United States Food processing SodaStream[99]
Philips  Netherlands Medical technology R&D Center
Polycom  United States Telecommunications R&D Center
Qualcomm  United States Semiconductors R&D Center
Red Hat  United States Software Qumranet[100]
Samsung  South Korea Consumer electronics Boxee[101]
SAP  Germany Software OFEK-Tech, TopTier Software, TopManage, A2i,[102] Gigya[103]
Sears  United States Retail R&D Center
SeaGate  United States Computer storage R&D Center
Siemens  Germany Electronics R&D Center
Software AG  Germany Software R&D Center
Sony  Japan Electronics Altair Semiconductor[104]
Sun Pharmaceutical  India Pharmaceuticals Taro Pharmaceuticals[105]
SingTel[106]  Singapore Telecommunications R&D Center
Syngenta   Switzerland Agribusiness Zeraim Gedera[107]
Tata Group  India Information technology Technology Innovation Momentum Fund[108]
Tech Mahindra  India Telecommunications Comverse Technology[109]
Teradata  United States Data warehousing Appoxee[110]
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries  Israel/ United States Pharmaceuticals R&D Center
Texas Instruments  United States Semiconductors R&D Center
Western Digital / SanDisk  United States Semiconductors M-Systems[111]
Xiaomi  China Consumer electronics R&D Center
Xerox  United States Information technology XMpie[112]
Yahoo  United States Internet ClarityRay,[113] Dapper,[114] RayV[115]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise  United States information technology R&D Center
Gartner  United States information technology R&D Center
Winbond  Taiwan Semiconductors R&D Center
Mitsubishi Corporation  Japan International Trade R&D Center
Salesforce  United States Software R&D Center
Palantir Technologies  United States Software R&D Center
Pfizer  United States Pharmaceutical R&D Center
Mastercard  United States Financial services R&D Center
kaspersky  Russia Cybersecurity R&D Center
Visa  United States Financial services R&D Center
BNP Paribas  France Banking, financial services R&D Center
Thales Group  France Electronics, aerospace, defence, transportation and security R&D Center
Carl Zeiss AG  Germany Optoelectronics R&D Center
Honda  Japan Automobile R&D Center
Bayer  Germany Pharmaceutical R&D Center
CA Technologies  United States Business-to-business R&D Center
Schneider Electric  Germany Electronics R&D Center
Ford Motor Company  United States Automobile R&D Center

See also[]

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