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Well, it want be a product because israeli companies never bring anything to the market, just create hype and exit as soon as they can. In general the state of IT in Israel is quite sad from usability and design perspective. Most of it looks like it was developed in the 90s and was never touched again (ie my university’s e-learning platform). As for consumer products, was there anything after Epilady?

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I like how you paint all the companies from a single country with such a wide brush! You are very wrong - A few Israeli startups that have made revolutionary products, off the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobileye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viber

Oh and Apple, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, Motorola, and Google have offices there - so perhaps there is some tech talent there? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi)

Talking about hardware. Though even based on the software products mentioned here, why Israel a startup nation? There are other countries other than USA, that had success with more products and far less hype.

Again, from usability and design perspective, internal market, Israel’s infrastructure is very backward. Universities, banks, governments ... everything was developed by one company, a contractor of Microsoft Israel called Matrix, and it looks as bad as it sounds.

On top of my head only from HW perspective, one of biggest Intel microprocessors R&D centers is located in Haifa IL (recently leading the Ice Lake - Core i9) and manufacturing center in Kiryat Gat. Intel also acquired MobileEye for their autonomous cars technology. Apple had a few acquisitions in the recent years such as Primesense (the inventors of MS XBOX Kinect sensors), KLA acquired Orbotech, IBM acquired Trusteer and so on. Moving this thread to SW will make it blast. Either way, the contributions of such a small country to the tech world is not proportional.

Still, the country is terrible at turning successful startups into big, stable firms.

Israeli here, this is very far from being true.

It feels like you just have a bone to pick with Israel?

He is clearly not a fan, just look through his comment history.

just looked at the first 5 pages - couldn't find anything that supports your claim though.

Quite a few are interesting and even insightful...

your list just confirmed the points you replied to.

Up until a couple months ago there was Mellanox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellanox_Technologies

Still is, the Nvidia acquisition is still not over, and the recent stock price drop might hint at some nervousness whether it will go through at all.

This is beyond ignorance, from this thread: Mellanox, MobilEye, Jfrog, OrboTech.

Not mentioned yet: SodaStream, RedisLabs, (now Google's) Anthos migrate.

And there are so many more that your statement is ridiculous. What have you done lately?

All main Intel uArchs since after Pentium 4 are derived from Israeli work. They did the Pentium M, which became the Core series after Intel finally figured out they weren't going to get 10GHz 30 stage pipeline Pentium 4s. The Israeli group's work basically saved Intel in the mid 2000s from AMD's competition.

I cut my teeth on Industrial automation and robotics in High school on an Eshed Robotec system (now Intellitech and seem to have downsized). There's also ACS motion control and Galil motion control. All Israeli.

The most astonishing part of your comment is that you remember Epilady :)

JFrog?

What about Waze?

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