Mobileye

Mobileye was founded in Jerusalem in 1999 by Professor Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram. The company develops computer vision and sensor-fusion technology for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. Intel acquired Mobileye in 2017 for approximately $15.3 billion, making it one of the largest technology acquisitions in Israeli history. In October 2022, Mobileye was re-listed on NASDAQ under the ticker MBLY through an IPO that valued the company at roughly $17 billion at listing, while Intel retained a controlling stake. Mobileye is headquartered in Jerusalem, where the majority of its R&D workforce is based.

Mobileye's primary product line consists of camera-based and sensor-fusion systems that enable vehicles to detect and respond to the surrounding environment — pedestrians, lane markings, traffic signs, and other vehicles. The technology is sold to global automotive OEMs (car manufacturers) and tier-one automotive suppliers as an OEM-integrated solution embedded into production vehicles. The core moat is the EyeQ system-on-chip family, purpose-built for real-time image processing in automotive applications, combined with a proprietary Road Experience Management (REM) mapping dataset crowdsourced from millions of vehicles globally.

The EyeQ chip series is Mobileye's flagship product — successive generations (EyeQ1 through EyeQ6) have been embedded in hundreds of millions of vehicles across dozens of OEM partnerships. The SuperVision system, introduced as a production product, provides hands-free highway driving using cameras as the primary sensor, without relying on lidar or radar, and was adopted by several automakers including SAIC and Zeekr. Mobileye also developed the Mobileye Drive autonomous vehicle platform targeting robotaxi and commercial autonomous deployment. The REM crowdsourced HD mapping layer feeds into both ADAS and AV products.

Mobileye competes in ADAS and autonomous driving against Bosch (which supplies competing camera and radar systems to OEMs), Continental, and, in the broader autonomous driving space, Waymo and Cruise. Mobileye's camera-only ADAS approach historically differentiated it from competitors that relied more heavily on radar or lidar. The company holds a large share of the production ADAS market by volume, shipping EyeQ chips across mass-market vehicles globally. The sector faces near-term headwinds from slower-than-expected autonomous vehicle adoption timelines and OEM pressure on pricing.

Mobileye's global headquarters and primary R&D center are in Jerusalem, making it one of the most significant technology employers in that city. The Jerusalem campus houses the overwhelming majority of the company's engineering and research staff. Amnon Shashua, co-founder and CEO, is an Israeli academic — a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem — and the company's deep ties to that institution reflect in its research culture. Mobileye typically hires in Israel for computer vision engineering, deep learning, chip architecture (EyeQ), autonomous systems, and product roles.