Avigdor Willenz

Jan 8, 2025 | en.globes.co.il | Avigdor Willenz |Assaf Gilead

Billionaire Avigdor Willenz's latest startup has adopted a strategy that has put it on a path to rival chip giants like Broadcom, Marvell and indirectly Nvidia. The new AI chip startup founded by Israeli serial entrepreneur and billionaire Avigdor Willenz is generating a storm in the tech industry with plans to compete with international chip giants and the way that employees are being hired.

Aug 20, 2024 | globes.co.il | Avigdor Willenz |Assaf Gilead

Serial entrepreneur and chip investor Avigdor Willenz has founded in stealth, together with his former partners at Habana Labs, a new AI chip startup called Touch, which to judge by the joint record of the founders could lead to a huge exit in several years. Touch's founding team includes CEO David Dahan and VP development Ran Halutz who together with Willenz founded graphic processor developer Habana Labs, which was sold to Intel for $2 billion in 2019.