The ability to think different, create new technologies and overcome technological barriers helped Israeli high tech   companies such as Amdocs, Elbit, Mellanox, Teva, Checkpoint and Nice Systems to become world leaders in their market segments. In addition, thanks to the large number of R&D engineers and the high quality of local education,  many multinational corporations opened centers of development excellence in Israel including IBM, HP, Apple,  Google, Intel, Microsoft, EMC, Marvell, SAP, Cisco, Broadcom, Applied Materials, and Qualcomm .