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Locating R&D and their global headquarters in Cambridge allows AZ to continue to focus on innovative science in their chosen therapy areas: cardiovascular, renal and metabolic; oncology and respiratory. It also builds on their heritage with their biologics R&D, having been based in the city for over 25 years.

At Illumina, our goal is to apply innovative technologies to the analysis of genetic variation and function, making studies possible that were not even imaginable just a few years ago. It is mission critical for us to deliver innovative, flexible, and scalable solutions to meet the needs of our customers. As a global company that places high value on collaborative interactions, rapid delivery of solutions, and providing the highest level of quality, we strive to meet this challenge. Illumina innovative sequencing and array technologies are fueling groundbreaking advancements in life science research, translational and consumer genomics, and molecular diagnostics.

Siemens AG specialises in product lifecycle management (PLM) allowing users to collaboratively create, validate and optimize manufacturing plans with product design. It acquired Shape Data a former University of Cambridge spin-out in 2007.

Since Amazon came to Cambridge in 2012, with the acquisition of the Cambridge-based AI specialist Evi, we have created hundreds of tech roles here. In our Station Square office, we bring state-of-the-art AI into real-world and high-scale breakthrough products, such as Alexa, Ring, Prime Air, and Amazon Scout. We also build and maintain some of the largest infrastructure products in the world, such as AWS S3 and AWS Kinesis. Across our diverse teams, we are working to progress the state of the art in computer vision, speech recognition, speech synthesis, navigation, machine reasoning, secure storage, data streaming, supply chain optimization, and many other areas.

In 1997 Cambridge became home to Microsoft’s first Research Laboratory outside of the United States. It maintains close ties to the University of Cambridge and to a number of other universities across the UK and Europe. The lab comprises an interdisciplinary team of researchers and engineers, working across themes including: All Data AI, Cloud Infrastructure, Confidential Computing, Future of Work; Game Intelligence; Healthcare Intelligence; and Biological Computation.

Samsung Cambridge was established in 2012 with the spinout of the R&D team from Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR). Samsung builds best-in-class wireless technologies for smart phone and tablet platforms and recently (2018) its Samsung AI Center Cambridge aims to enrich peoples’ lives with "Human-Centric AI".