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NVIDIA

Santa Clara, CA

GPU market leader (~88% share). Blackwell H100/H200/B200 deployed at scale. Vera Rubin NVL72 (50 PFLOPS FP4, HBM4, NVLink 6) shipping H2 2026. Acquired Groq assets ($20B, Dec 2025). CUDA ecosystem dominant.

GPUs AI Accelerators

AMD

Santa Clara, CA

Radeon RDNA 4 GPUs (RX 9000 series). Instinct MI350 (CDNA 4, 3nm, 288GB HBM3E) shipping 2025; MI455X (HBM4, 40 PFLOPS FP4) for 2026. Acquired Enosemi (photonics, May 2025). Helios AI rack. ROCm ecosystem.

GPUs AI Accelerators

Intel Arc

Santa Clara, CA

Battlemage (Xe2) Arc B580/B570 GPUs shipping. Panther Lake (18A process, 50% faster than prior gen) debuted CES 2026. Intel restructuring: 25,000+ layoffs, new CEO Lip-Bu Tan (Mar 2025). Foundry under strategic review.

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Cerebras Systems

Sunnyvale, CA

Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-3): 900K cores, 4T transistors. OpenAI $20B+ chip supply deal. $1B Series H (Feb 2026) at $23B valuation. Filed Nasdaq IPO April 2026 targeting $35B+ valuation.

TPUs AI Accelerators

Groq

Mountain View, CA

Language Processing Unit (LPU) — 500K tokens/sec inference speed. NVIDIA acquired ~$20B in Groq assets + ~90% of employees (Dec 24, 2025). GroqCloud continues as standalone inference service under new CEO.

AI Accelerators

Lightmatter

Boston, MA

Passage photonic interconnects (L200/L200x: 32–64 Tbps, 5-10× bandwidth density, 2026) and Envise AI accelerator. $850M total raised; $400M Series D (Oct 2025, Google re-invested). $4.4B valuation.

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