The top Israeli semiconductor and chip companies in 2026 are Tower Semiconductor (specialty foundry), Nova (chip metrology), Xsight Labs (data center networking chips, valued at $2.8 billion), NextSilicon (high-performance computing) and Majestic Labs (AI servers). Nvidia and Intel also run major chip R&D in Israel. Ten Israeli companies, below.
Israel is one of the world's most important places for chip design. Intel has made chips here since the 1970s and runs a fab in Kiryat Gat; Nvidia's largest site outside the US is in Israel, built on its 2020 purchase of Mellanox; and Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Qualcomm all design silicon here. Alongside them is a homegrown sector of listed manufacturers and AI chip startups. 2026 brought several exits, including Microchip's purchase of AI chip maker Hailo, Credo's deal for DustPhotonics and Molex's for Teramount, so this list covers Israeli-founded companies that remain independent as of October 2026.
The Israeli chip manufacturer that makes analog, RF and photonics chips for others.
Tower manufactures specialty chips (radio frequency, power management, image sensors and silicon photonics) for customers worldwide, in fabs in Israel, the US and Japan. Silicon photonics for AI data centers has become a major growth driver.
It is listed on Nasdaq and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and is one of Israel's most valuable tech companies.
Measures chips during manufacturing so fabs can make smaller, more complex ones.
Nova makes optical and chemical metrology systems that measure the layers of a chip as it is being made, which is essential at the most advanced manufacturing nodes. Its customers are the world's leading chipmakers.
Listed on Nasdaq, it has become one of Israel's larger technology companies by market value.
Builds the switching silicon that moves data between AI servers.
Xsight Labs designs programmable Ethernet switches and data processing units for cloud and AI data centers, competing in a market dominated by much larger chipmakers.
It raised $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation in July 2026, one of the biggest private chip rounds in Israel.
A processor that reshapes itself around the code it runs.
NextSilicon's Maverick chips reconfigure at runtime to accelerate the most demanding parts of scientific and AI workloads, aimed at supercomputing centers that today depend on GPUs.
It is valued at about $1.5 billion and works with US national laboratories.
Founded by former Google and Meta chip leaders to rethink AI servers around memory.
Majestic Labs is building AI systems designed to hold far more memory than today's GPU servers, so large models can serve many more users on the same infrastructure.
Founded in 2023 by Ofer Shacham, Sha Rabii and Masumi Reynders, it has raised about $100 million, including a $90 million Series A.
Cuts the cost of running AI models by redesigning the server around inference.
NeuReality's NR1 chip and appliance replace the CPU-centric parts of an AI inference server, so GPUs and accelerators are fed more efficiently and power costs fall.
It is one of the better-known Israeli AI hardware startups.
Builds the classical hardware and software that runs quantum computers.
Quantum Machines' control systems orchestrate the qubits in quantum processors and are used by many of the world's quantum computing labs and companies, regardless of whose qubits they use.
It is among the best-funded quantum hardware companies outside the US and a pillar of Israel's national quantum effort.
Puts tiny monitors inside chips to predict failures before they happen.
proteanTecs embeds agents in a chip's design that report on its health and performance throughout its life, used by chipmakers and data center operators to improve reliability and efficiency.
It counts major chipmakers and cloud providers among its customers.
A chip designed specifically to speed up database and analytics workloads.
Speedata's analytics processing unit accelerates data processing engines such as Apache Spark, a workload that general-purpose CPUs and GPUs handle inefficiently.
It has raised more than $100 million in total, including a $44 million round.
Its designs end up inside billions of phones, earbuds and cars.
CEVA licenses processor and connectivity designs (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 5G, AI and sensor processing) to chipmakers, who build them into their own products. Most of its R&D is in Israel.
It is listed on Nasdaq.
Among Israeli companies, Tower Semiconductor, the specialty foundry in Migdal HaEmek, and Nova, the Rehovot metrology company, are the largest, both listed on Nasdaq. Among multinationals, Nvidia and Intel run the biggest chip operations in the country.
Yes. Nvidia's Israel operation, built on its acquisition of Mellanox in 2020, is its largest R&D center outside the US, with thousands of employees in Yokneam and other sites working on networking, data center processors and AI systems. It has been ranked the best place to work in Israel for three years running.
Microchip bought Hailo, Credo bought DustPhotonics for up to $1.3 billion and Molex bought Teramount for $430 million, while Amazon's Annapurna Labs had taken on NeuroBlade's engineering team in late 2025.
Decades of Intel, Motorola and IBM design centers trained a deep bench of chip engineers; the Technion turns out electrical engineers in large numbers; and military technology units add hardware and signal processing experience. Many startups are founded by veterans of Mellanox, Annapurna Labs and Intel.
Haifa and the Yokneam high-tech park in the north, Migdal HaEmek, Kiryat Gat in the south (Intel's fab), Rehovot, and the Tel Aviv to Herzliya corridor for design startups.