AI Accelerators

MediaTek

TW · Hsinchu

Taiwan's largest IC design company. Smartphone SoCs (Dimensity), WiFi, TV chips, automotive. 4th largest fabless company globally.

Duality Technologies

US · Newark, NJ

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) accelerator chips enabling computation on encrypted data at near-native speed.

CEVA

US · Rockville, MD

DSP and AI processor IP for wireless, audio, vision. SensPro2 NPU, Bluetooth/Wi-Fi IP.

Crystal Group

US · Hiawatha, IA

Employee-owned rugged computing. 20,000+ servers in US Navy operations. IP68-rated AI edge processors.

HyperAccel

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean AI chip startup developing NPUs for on-device AI and edge computing applications.

Snowcap Compute

US · Palo Alto, CA

Superconducting compute platform for AI and quantum-classical hybrid using Josephson junctions. Pat Gelsinger is Chairman.

Rebellions

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean AI chip startup. ATOM NPU, merging with Sapeon.

Cerebras Systems

US · Sunnyvale, CA

Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-3). Largest chip ever made, 4 trillion transistors.

Meta MTIA

US · Menlo Park, CA

Meta Training and Inference Accelerator. Custom chips for ranking/recommendations.

Biren Technology

CN · Shanghai, China

Chinese GPU challenger. BR100 GPU, $2.7B funding, export restricted.

Moffett AI

US · San Jose, CA

Sparse computing for AI. Antoum chip, massive efficiency gains.

Meta MTIA

US · Menlo Park, CA

Meta Training and Inference Accelerator. Custom chip for AI recommendation and ranking.

Tachyum

SK · Bratislava, Slovakia

Prodigy universal processor. CPU/GPU/TPU unified architecture from Slovakia.

Navitas Semiconductor

IE · Dublin, Ireland

GaNFast gallium nitride power ICs and GeneSiC silicon carbide MOSFETs for AI data centers, EVs, and consumer electronics.

SpacemiT

CN · Hangzhou

RISC-V processor company. K1 octa-core RISC-V SoC for AI edge applications. Founded by ex-Intel/ARM engineers.

Huashan A2000 automotive SoC. High-performance ADAS chips.

Liquid AI

US · Boston, MA

Liquid Neural Networks from MIT spinout (2023). Biologically-inspired flexible AI models.

Cepton

US · San Jose, CA

LiDAR with proprietary Komodo ASIC for point cloud processing. ISO26262 ASIL-B certified. Acquired by Koito.

Fractile

GB · London, UK

Radical in-memory computing chip architecture for AI inference. Claims 100x faster, 10x cheaper, 20x better power efficiency.

LeapMind

JP · Tokyo, Japan

Ultra-low-power deep learning on small FPGAs. DeLTA-Lite tools for neural network optimization.

Vybium

AT · Vienna, Austria

RISC-V AI accelerators for European Digital Strategic Autonomy. Competing with Nvidia datacenter GPUs.

Neuchips

TW · Taipei, Taiwan

DLRM and recommendation system specialist. RecAccel chip for deep learning.

Speedata

IL · Tel Aviv, Israel

Analytics Processing Unit (APU) with memory-integrated coprocessors for big data analytics. 280x speedup demonstrated.

Ouster

US · San Francisco, CA

Digital 3D LiDAR with Chronos automotive-grade chip. Merged with Velodyne 2023. 600+ customers in 50+ countries.

MatX

US · Mountain View, CA

High-throughput AI chips for LLMs. 10x better than NVIDIA GPUs for training. Founded by Google TPU team alumni.

Qualcomm

US · San Diego, CA

Hexagon DSP in Snapdragon SoCs. AI Engine for on-device ML, billions of devices powered.

FPGA-based sustainable AI. $23.5M raised (2025).

PrimisAI

US · San Jose, CA

Generative AI for chip design with RapidGPT natural language interface for HDL and verification.

Esperanto Technologies

US · Mountain View, CA

RISC-V AI chips. $115M raised (2025), 7nm process.

SiPearl

FR · Maisons-Laffitte, France

Rhea processor for EU supercomputers. €130M raised (2025), Arm/Atos backed, Jupiter supercomputer.

Together AI

US · San Francisco, CA

Open AI cloud platform. Custom GPU clusters, model training.

Tenstorrent

CA · Toronto, ON

RISC-V AI chips with Grayskull and Wormhole architecture. Led by Jim Keller, open-source AI hardware.

Microsoft (Azure Maia)

US · Redmond, WA

Azure Maia 100 - Microsoft's first custom AI accelerator.

EdgeCortix

JP · Tokyo, Japan

Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA) for edge AI inference. SAKURA-II AI accelerator for autonomous systems.

Starcloud (Lumen Orbit)

US · Redmond, WA

Data centers in space for GPU compute. Solar energy and passive radiative cooling. First launch May 2025, partnership with NVIDIA.

Synopsys

US · Sunnyvale, CA

EDA tools and DesignWare IP. AI-driven design with DSO.ai. ANSYS acquisition 2024.

Optalysys

GB · Glasgow, UK

Optical computing for FHE and AI. Light-based Fourier transform processors.

Quanta Computer

TW · Taoyuan

World's largest notebook ODM. Major AI server manufacturer for hyperscalers. NVIDIA GPU server partner.

Arm Holdings

GB · Cambridge

World's leading semiconductor IP company. ARM architecture used in 99% of smartphones. Cortex-A/R/M CPU cores, Mali GPUs, Ethos NPUs. Powers billions of devices annually.

Achronix

US · Santa Clara, CA

Speedster7t, VectorPath cards. 200% cost/power advantage vs GPUs for LLMs, eFPGA IP.

Etched

US · San Francisco, CA

Sohu - Transformer-specific ASIC. $120M Series A, claims 20x H100 performance.

OpenAI (Custom Chip)

US · San Francisco, CA

Custom chip developed with Broadcom. 3nm TSMC, mass production 2026.

Apple Silicon

US · Cupertino, CA

M-series chips (M4, M4 Pro/Max/Ultra). Industry-leading perf/watt for consumer.

VeriSilicon

CN · Shanghai

Chinese semiconductor IP and custom chip company. Vivante GPU IP, ZSP DSP, VIP NPU cores. One-stop silicon platform for fabless companies.

Aitech Defense Systems

IL · Kfar Saba, Israel

Rugged embedded computing since 1983. A230 Vortex AI supercomputer with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin (275 TOPS).

Composable AI infrastructure. Unified memory architecture.

Biren Technology

CN · Shanghai, China

Chinese GPU startup. BR100/BR104 chips competing with NVIDIA A100. Export restrictions impact.

Codasip

CZ · Brno

Czech RISC-V processor IP company offering customizable processor cores and design automation tools. Codasip Studio enables custom instruction design for optimized RISC-V implementations.

Synthara

CH · Zurich, Switzerland

ComputeRAM in-memory computing for embedded applications. Backed by Hermann Hauser and Pat Gelsinger.

Sakana AI

JP · Tokyo, Japan

Japanese AI unicorn developing nature-inspired AI models. Achieved unicorn status in under a year.

Recogni

US · San Jose, CA

Scorpio AI processor for autonomous vehicles (L2-L4) and generative AI. Phoenix system offers 150-2000 TOPS scalability.

AI inference optimization. Hardware-software co-design.

Semifive

KR · Seongnam, South Korea

Korean custom silicon platform. RISC-V based AI/HPC chips.

Outerport

US · San Francisco, CA

Hot-swapping system for AI model weights. Swap models on same GPU in ~2 seconds (150x faster). Save 40% on GPU costs.

Elbit Systems

IL · Haifa, Israel

Israel's first computer company (1966). Intelligent avionics, decision support systems, and EW solutions. $5.5B revenue.

Calterah Semiconductor

CN · Shanghai, China

mmWave radar chip portfolio including 77/79 GHz and 60 GHz SoCs. Ships 16 million units annually.

Extropic

US · San Francisco, CA

Thermodynamic AI computing using superconducting processors. Z1 chip with 250K p-bits, claims 10,000x less energy than GPUs.

MediaTek

TW · Hsinchu, Taiwan

Dimensity mobile SoCs. Taiwan's largest fabless company, NVIDIA DGX Spark collaboration.

FuriosaAI

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean AI chip startup. Warboy NPU for datacenter inference, RNGD chip for edge deployment.

SambaNova

US · Palo Alto, CA

Reconfigurable Dataflow Units (RDU). SoftBank-backed, enterprise AI focus.

BR166 GPU lineup. ~$2B valuation, Hong Kong IPO planned.

NextSilicon

IL · Israel

Reconfigurable/adaptive HPC accelerators with Intelligent Compute Architecture. Better performance-to-power than NVIDIA.

Oculii

US · Dayton, OH

AI-powered radar software for automotive. Virtual aperture imaging radar. Acquired by Ambarella.

Rebellions

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Domain-specific AI chip (Rebel-Quad). $200M+ raised, Samsung partnership.

SiEngine Technology

CN · Wuhan, China

Geely/Arm China JV developing 7nm autonomous driving chips with 512 TOPS NPU computing power.

Reconfigurable AI processors. Optimized for dynamic sparsity.

Flexxon

SG · Singapore

World's first AI-embedded cybersecurity SSD (X-PHY) with real-time threat detection at firmware level.

Ahead Computing

US · Austin, TX

RISC-V processor IP for AI and HPC. High-performance vector processing cores.

GreenWaves Technologies

FR · Grenoble, France

GAP ultra-low power processors. RISC-V based edge AI from France.

RISC-V data center chips. Acquired by Meta, ~$2B valuation.

VersaLogic

US · Tualatin, OR

40+ years of embedded computers with MIL-STD-202H qualification. Sabertooth AI system for defense applications.

Broadcom

US · Palo Alto, CA

Custom AI ASICs with optical attach, Tomahawk switches. Major hyperscaler partnerships.

FuriosaAI

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean AI accelerator. Warboy/Renegade NPUs for inference.

Kalray

FR · Grenoble, France

MPPA intelligent processor. Coolidge chip for data centers, storage, and automotive.

AMD

US · Santa Clara, CA

Radeon RDNA 4 GPUs, Instinct MI300X/MI325X for AI. ROCm software stack, 12% GPU market share.

Sapeon

KR · Seoul, South Korea

SK Telecom spinoff. X330 AI chip for datacenter, edge AI processors for Korean market.

Imagination Technologies

GB · Kings Langley

UK-based semiconductor IP company. PowerVR GPU and IMG NPU cores for mobile, automotive, and IoT. Powers Apple devices, MediaTek, and automotive systems.

Semifive

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Platform-based ASIC design company. Customizable chip solutions for AI and HPC applications.

Hailo

IL · Tel Aviv, Israel

Hailo-8, Hailo-10H, and Hailo-15. Raspberry Pi partnership.

Black Sesame Technologies

CN · Shanghai

Chinese automotive AI chip company. Huashan series processors for autonomous driving with high TOPS performance. Key player in Chinese ADAS chip market.

d-Matrix

US · Santa Clara, CA

Digital in-memory compute (DIMC) for AI inference. Corsair chip targets enterprise LLM deployment.

Tencent-backed AI chips. T20/L600 chips, TSMC access, not on Entity List.

Shanghai Tianshu Zhixin

CN · Shanghai, China

AI chip company focused on data center applications. Developing domestic alternatives to Western GPUs.

Rebellions

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean AI chip company. ATOM NPU for edge, REBEL chip for datacenter. Samsung partnership.

EdgeCortix

JP · Tokyo, Japan

Dynamic Neural Accelerator (DNA) ASIC and FPGA solutions. SAKURA chips deliver 40-240 TOPS at sub-10W power.

Biren Technology

CN · Shanghai

Chinese GPU startup developing high-performance GPUs for AI and data centers. BR100 GPU targets NVIDIA A100 competition. Major domestic alternative amid export controls.

Morphing Machines

IN · Bengaluru, India

REDEFINE reconfigurable processor. IISc Bengaluru spinout, ₹38Cr Series A (2025), FPGA-like flexibility.

Kneron

US · San Diego, CA

Edge AI for autonomous vehicles. $190M+ raised.

Exa Laboratories

SE · Stockholm, Sweden

Reconfigurable dataflow chips (XPUs) for AI training and inference. YC S24, claims 27.6x efficiency vs H100.

Leonardo DRS

US · Arlington, VA

Defense technology with 100,000+ mission computers delivered to US Army. AI Processor (AIP) for tactical edge.

Blueberry Semiconductors

IN · Bengaluru

VLSI, ASIC, and SoC solutions. AI, 5G, and industrial IoT expertise. Indian semiconductor design services.

AheadComputing

US · Beaverton, OR

64-bit RISC-V application processors to tackle CPU bottlenecks in AI workloads. Founded by former Intel CPU architects.

Xsight Labs

IL · Kiryat Gat, Israel

Programmable SDN Ethernet switches and ARM CPU-based DPUs for AI and hyperscale data centers.

Curtiss-Wright Defense

US · Davidson, NC

SOSA-aligned embedded computing for defense. VPX GPU modules with NVIDIA Blackwell delivering 100+ TFLOPS.

Etron Technology

TW · Hsinchu, Taiwan

Fabless IC design pioneering KGDM bare-die memories. JV with Nanya for ultra-high-bandwidth AI memory.

RoboSense

CN · Shenzhen, China

World's #1 LiDAR company with 1M+ units delivered. Proprietary M-Core SoC chip for LiDAR processing.

Quadric

US · Burlingame, CA

Edge AI supercomputer chips. Chimera GPNPU architecture.

Kneron

TW · San Diego, CA

Edge AI chips with reconfigurable NPU architecture. KL series for smart devices and automotive.

Gyrfalcon Technology

US · Milpitas, CA

Lightspeeur AI accelerators. Low-power edge inference chips.

Merged with Rebellions (2024). X330 AI chip, SK Telecom spinoff.

Cambricon

CN · Beijing, China

MLU 590 (345 TFLOPS FP16). ~$79B market cap, Big Fund II backed, only pure-play A-share AI chip.

Optical fiber computing. All-optical AI processing in fiber.

Groq

US · Mountain View, CA

Language Processing Unit (LPU) with tensor streaming architecture. Fastest LLM inference, founded by ex-Google TPU team.

SiMa.ai

US · San Jose, CA

MLSoC for edge AI/ML in 5-25W power range. Generative edge AI platform for embedded applications.

Optalysys

GB · Glasgow, UK

Optical computing for genomics and AI. Light-based Fourier transforms.

Uhnder

US · Austin, TX

Pioneer of digital 4D imaging radar-on-chip. 16x better resolution than analog radar with DCM technology.

Thales Group

FR · Paris, France

European leader in defence electronics. €20.6B revenue. Fly-by-wire systems, mission computers, quantum technologies.

EdgeQ

US · Santa Clara, CA

5G+AI converged chips. Base station and edge infrastructure.

Lightelligence

US · Boston, MA

Hummingbird photonic chip. MIT spinout, optical AI acceleration.

ScaleFlux

US · San Jose, CA

Computational storage SoC with integrated data compression. 4x better performance per watt for AI workloads.

UNISOC

CN · Shanghai, China

Fourth largest mobile processor manufacturer globally with 13% market share. 5G chips for budget/mid-range phones.

LightOn

FR · Paris, France

Optical processing units (OPUs) for AI and random projections. French photonic computing pioneer.

Vertical Compute

BE · Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

imec spinoff developing vertically integrated memory and compute for AI accelerators with chiplet-based solutions.

Moore Threads

CN · Beijing, China

Chinese GPU company. MTT S4000 for AI, domestic GPU alternative.

Meta (MTIA)

US · Menlo Park, CA

MTIA v2 for training and inference. Built on 5nm process.

Optical computing in 3D space. Oxford spinout, $10M+ raised, 10x cost reduction.

Graphcore

GB · Bristol, UK

Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU). Acquired by SoftBank ($600M+, 2024).

Cadence Design Systems

US · San Jose, CA

EDA tools and Tensilica processor IP. AI-driven chip design with Cerebrus.

Salience Labs

GB · Oxford, UK

Oxford/Münster spinout. Ultra high-speed multi-chip processors combining photonics and electronics for AI.

EnCharge AI

US · Santa Clara, CA

Analog in-memory compute. $100M+ Series B, Tiger Global/Samsung backed.

Esperanto Technologies

US · Mountain View, CA

RISC-V based ET-SoC-1 chip with 1,088 RISC-V cores delivering 100-200 TOPS at <20W for ML inference and HPC.

Horizon Robotics

CN · Beijing, China

Journey series autonomous driving chips. 49% China ADAS market share.

Felafax

US · San Francisco, CA

Open-source AI platform for non-NVIDIA GPUs (TPU, Trainium, AMD, Intel). 30% lower cost. Trained LLaMA3 405B on AMD MI300x.

Vaire Computing

GB · London, UK

Reversible computing chips for near-zero energy consumption. 50% energy savings for AI computations.

deepsilicon

US · San Francisco, CA

Custom silicon for ternary transformer models. 8x compression through 2-bit weights, 5x less RAM, up to 20x faster inference.

Groq

US · Mountain View, CA

LPU inference chips. $1.5B Saudi deal, $6B valuation, fastest LLM inference.

LeddarTech

CA · Quebec City, QC

LeddarEngine SoC for ToF LiDAR and LeddarVision sensor fusion software supporting SAE L2-L5.

SandboxAQ

US · Palo Alto, CA

Google/Alphabet spin-off combining quantum sensors with AI for ultra-precise detection in navigation and medical diagnostics.

Groq

US · Mountain View, CA

Language Processing Unit (LPU). $1.5B Saudi investment, 500K tokens/sec.

Rebellions

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean AI chip unicorn. $200M+ raised, Samsung partnership, ATOM/REBEL chips.

Moffett AI

US · San Jose, CA

Sparse computing architecture for AI. Claims 10x efficiency through sparsity exploitation.

NEXTDC

AU · Brisbane, Australia

AI-optimized data centers. ASX listed, NVIDIA platform certified, Australia's largest.

Normal Computing

US · New York, NY

Thermodynamic AI computing. Stochastic processing units for probabilistic AI. Founded by ex-Google researchers.

SiMa.ai

US · San Jose, CA

MLSoC platform for edge computer vision applications.

EdgeCortix

JP · Tokyo, Japan

SAKURA-II accelerator. $49M NEDO funding.

Tenstorrent

US · Austin, TX

RISC-V AI chips including Wormhole. $700M Series D (2024), Jim Keller as CEO.

SiFive

US · San Francisco, CA

First company to produce RISC-V ISA chips. X280 cores used in Google TPUs for machine learning acceleration.

Ambarella

US · Santa Clara, CA

Video AI chips with CV/ISP integration. Edge AI for automotive and security.

Retym

US · San Jose, CA

Programmable coherent DSP solutions for cloud and AI infrastructure. High-performance signal processing.

Indie Semiconductor

US · Aliso Viejo, CA

Pure-play automotive fabless semiconductor for driver safety and electrification. Surya LiDAR SoC.

Ambarella

US · Santa Clara, CA

AI vision SoCs for automotive ADAS, security cameras, and robotics. CV3 AI domain controller.

Cerebras Systems

US · Sunnyvale, CA

Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE-3). 900K cores, 4T transistors, $8.1B valuation.

Kontron

DE · Augsburg, Germany

Global leader in IoT and embedded computing with rugged SOSA-aligned VPX solutions for defense applications.

Preferred Networks

JP · Tokyo, Japan

MN-Core AI processors. MN-Core 2 (7nm), L1000 GenAI chip (2026), Green500 #1 supercomputer.

HyperAccel

KR · Seoul, South Korea

LLM Processing Unit with LPDDR5X memory on Samsung 4nm process. Optimized for large language model inference.

Tesla Dojo

US · Austin, TX

D1 chip for FSD training. Exapod supercomputer, custom interconnect.

Untether AI

CA · Toronto, Canada

At-memory architecture. speedAI240 with 2 PetaOps. Acquired by AMD (2025).

University of Michigan spinout. Memristor + CMOS integration for AI inference.

Axelera AI

NL · Eindhoven, Netherlands

European edge AI chips. Metis AIPU, in-memory computing.

In-memory processing chips. $15M seed, AI energy efficiency focus.

Momenta

CN · Beijing, China

Full-stack autonomous driving company developing self-developed ADAS chips. Supplies 60% of city-NOA solutions in China.

NeuroBlade

IL · Tel Aviv, Israel

SQL Processing Unit (SPU). Analytics acceleration, in-memory compute.

Synaptics

US · San Jose, CA

Human interface solutions. Touch controllers, display drivers, fingerprint sensors, AI-powered audio/video ICs.

DeGirum

US · Santa Clara, CA

ORCA edge AI accelerator for computer vision. Hardware-agnostic PySDK. Ex-Marvell founders.

AI accelerator startup. Next-gen inference optimization.

Photonic AI accelerators. $26M seed (2025), Paris-based, energy-efficient.

Axelera AI

NL · Eindhoven, Netherlands

AI Processing Units using Digital In-Memory Compute for edge-to-enterprise inference. Europa chip delivers 629 TOPS.

Positron AI

US · Reno, NV

FPGA-powered AI inference with memory-optimized architecture. Claims 3.5x better performance per dollar than H100.

Arago

FR · Paris, France

Energy-efficient AI chips powered by light. JEF processor delivers 10x lower energy than leading GPUs.

Etched

US · San Francisco, CA

Transformer-only ASIC. Sohu chip, 10x faster than H100 for inference.

Photonic AI supercomputer on a chip. Claims to surpass NVIDIA GPUs in performance/watt.

Founded by ex-Nvidia China GM. $1.1B Shanghai IPO planned, DeepSeek/Qwen compatible.

DEEPX

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean edge AI NPU startup. DX-M1 for mobile, DX-H1 for automotive. Samsung partnership.

NVIDIA

US · Santa Clara, CA

GPU market leader (88% share). H100/H200/B100 Blackwell for AI, RTX 50 series, CUDA ecosystem dominance.

HOUMO.AI

CN · China

AI chip company for autonomous driving applications. Computing solutions for smart vehicles.

Qualcomm

US · San Diego, CA

Mobile chip leader. Snapdragon processors for smartphones, automotive, IoT. 5G modems, WiFi 7, AI/ML acceleration. ARM architecture licensing.

SparseOne series. Sparsity-focused, ultra-efficient (32x sparsification).

Ferveret

US · San Jose, CA

Two-phase immersion liquid cooling inspired by nuclear reactors. 96% cooling cost savings, 2x chip performance, 300+kW per rack.

Socionext

JP · Yokohama, Japan

Major custom SoC provider (2nd globally) developing ADAS/AD SoCs using TSMC 3nm/5nm automotive processes.

Cornami

US · Campbell, CA

Fully homomorphic encryption acceleration. Privacy-preserving compute.

Chiplego

CN · Shanghai

Chinese chiplet startup developing modular semiconductor solutions. Creating specialized chiplets for automotive and AI applications amid export restrictions.

Blueshift Memory

GB · Cambridge, UK

Near-data processing memory architecture. Reduces data movement for AI and analytics workloads.

Speedata

IL · Tel Aviv, Israel

Analytics Processing Unit (APU). Apache Spark acceleration.

Blaize

US · El Dorado Hills, CA

Graph-native AI edge computing platform. Pathfinder and Xplorer processors for automotive and smart vision.

Huawei Ascend

CN · Shenzhen, China

Ascend 910B/910C chips. Roadmap to 970 (2028), targeting 4 ZettaFLOPS by 2028.

Altair Engineering

US · Troy, MI

Computational science and AI company. HyperWorks simulation, electromagnetic analysis, AI/ML tools. Being acquired by Siemens (2024).

UPMEM

FR · Grenoble, France

Processing-in-Memory acceleration with hundreds of programmable coprocessors integrated into DRAM. Acquired by Qualcomm.

FuriosaAI

KR · Seoul, South Korea

RNGD AI accelerator with Tensor Contraction Processor architecture. 512 TFLOPS FP8, 48GB HBM3. Declined $800M Meta acquisition.

Mobileye

IL · Jerusalem

Autonomous driving chips and ADAS. Intel subsidiary. EyeQ SoC processors. Powers BMW, VW, Ford autonomous systems.

SambaNova Systems

US · Palo Alto, CA

Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture. $1.1B+ raised, enterprise AI platform.

Etched

US · San Francisco, CA

Transformer-specific ASIC. Sohu chip designed exclusively for transformer inference. $120M+ funding.

Enflame Technology

CN · Shanghai

Chinese AI chip company developing cloud AI training and inference chips. CloudBlazer series accelerators compete in data center AI market.

Marvell Technology

US · Wilmington, DE

Silicon photonics leader. Acquired Celestial AI ($3.25B, Dec 2025), 1.6T light engines for AI networks.

Morphing Machines

IN · Bengaluru, India

IISc Bengaluru spinoff developing reconfigurable computing platforms. REDEFINE processor architecture.

Hailo

IL · Tel Aviv, Israel

Edge AI chips. $340M+ raised, $1.2B valuation, Hailo-15 CES 2024 award, Raspberry Pi partner.

Marvell Technology

US · Wilmington, DE

Data infrastructure semiconductor company. Custom AI accelerators, cloud-optimized silicon, networking, storage controllers, 5G.

AWS Trainium/Inferentia

US · Seattle, WA

Trainium2 and Inferentia2 custom AI chips for AWS. UltraCluster 100K chip clusters.

ECM3532 ultra-low power AI. Continuous learning at the edge, acquired by Renesas.

C500/C600 chips, dual-chiplet design. Ex-AMD founders, $545M IPO planned.

Andes Technology

TW · Hsinchu, Taiwan

RISC-V CPU IP provider and founding RISC-V International Premier member. D23-SE core for ASIL-B/D automotive safety.

AlphaICs

IN · Bangalore, India

RAP (Real AI Processor) for edge inference. Bangalore-based AI chip startup.

Broadcom Inc.

US · Palo Alto, CA

Global semiconductor leader. Networking, broadband, wireless, storage, custom AI accelerators. Major supplier to Apple, hyperscalers.

DEEPX

KR · Seoul, South Korea

Korean AI chip startup. DX-M1 NPU for on-device AI.

Graphcore

GB · Bristol, UK

Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU). Acquired by SoftBank ($600M+, Oct 2024).

Perceive

US · San Jose, CA

Edge AI inference chips. Ergo processor for ultra-low power AI.

Netrasemi

IN · Bangalore, India

Graph stream parallel SoCs. $12.5M Series A.

Moore Threads

CN · Beijing

Chinese GPU company founded by ex-NVIDIA executives. MTT S80 and S4000 GPUs for gaming, visualization, and AI. Building domestic GPU ecosystem in China.

Megaport

AU · Brisbane, Australia

Network-as-a-Service for AI infrastructure. ASX listed, global interconnect.

SEMRON

DE · Dresden

German analog AI chip startup using memcapacitor technology. Encoding neural network weights in hardware for extreme energy efficiency in AI inference.

Oxmiq Labs

US · San Jose, CA

GPU IP integrating scalar, vector, and tensor compute engines in modular architecture for custom chips.

Google DeepMind TPU

US · Mountain View, CA

Trillium TPU v6 (2024). 4.7x improvement over v5, custom Axion ARM CPUs.

Fractile

GB · London, UK

AI chips for 100x faster, 10x cheaper inference through in-memory computing. Cambridge/London based.

VSORA

FR · Paris, France

AI processors for autonomous vehicles. $46M raised, software-defined approach.

EnCharge AI

US · Santa Clara, CA

In-memory analog computing chips for AI. Princeton spinout with $18.6M DARPA support for ultra-powerful edge computing.

GSI Technology

US · Sunnyvale, CA

Associative Processing Unit (APU) delivering GPU-class AI performance with 98% lower energy via compute-in-SRAM.

CoreWeave

US · Roseland, NJ

GPU cloud provider. $23B valuation, NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure.

Systel

US · Sugar Land, TX

Rugged mission-critical computing since 1988. 8000+ systems deployed for US military airborne missions.

Extropic

US · San Francisco, CA

Thermodynamic computing using physics of entropy. Novel approach to AI acceleration. $14M seed.

Nanya Technology

TW · Taipei, Taiwan

Taiwan's #4 global DRAM manufacturer. Developing customized HBM for edge AI including AI PCs and robotics.

Enflame Technology

CN · Shanghai, China

Chinese AI chip startup. CloudBlazer chips for data centers.

AI agents for chip design. $24M raised, LLM-powered EDA.

RISC-V AI chips. Chinese startup, edge AI processors.

FuriosaAI

KR · Seoul, South Korea

RNGD chip. $246M total funding, 2.25x performance/watt vs GPUs. Meta acquisition interest.

Enflame

CN · Shanghai, China

Chinese AI chip startup. CloudBlazer chips for training and inference, domestic GPU alternative.

Cornelis Networks

US · Wayne, PA

HPC scale-out networking. Omni-Path architecture for AI/HPC. CN5000 chips. NNSA partnership. Supermicro collaboration.

Cambricon

CN · Beijing

Chinese AI chip company spun off from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Neural network processors for data centers and edge devices. Key domestic AI chip supplier in China.

LLM inference optimization. Founded by ex-Google TPU engineers.

Preferred Networks

JP · Tokyo, Japan

Full-stack AI company developing MN-Core custom processors. 2nm chips with Samsung, launching AI cloud service.

Space and robotics AI chips. Radiation-hardened edge inference.

NeuroBlade

IL · Tel Aviv, Israel

SQL Processing Unit (SPU) for analytics acceleration.

Iluvatar CoreX

CN · Shanghai

Chinese AI chip startup developing general-purpose GPUs and AI accelerators. Targeting data center AI training and inference markets with domestic alternatives.

Recogni

US · San Jose, CA

Vision AI processors. Automotive perception, low-latency inference.

Enfabrica

US · San Jose, CA

Accelerated Compute Fabric SuperNIC. 3.2 Tbps, 500K GPU clusters, ex-Broadcom founder.

Etched

US · Cupertino, CA

Sohu transformer ASIC. $120M raised, hardcoded transformer architecture.

Parallel Processing Unit (PPU). Claims 100x CPU performance boost.

d-Matrix

US · Santa Clara, CA

In-memory computing with Corsair platform. Chiplet-based Jayhawk II.

Korean edge AI. $15.3M raised, automotive vision focus.

Kinara

US · San Jose, CA

Ara-2 processor. NXP partnership - positioned as "CUDA of automotive".

Lambda Labs

US · San Francisco, CA

GPU cloud for AI. Deep learning workstations, cloud GPU clusters.

GPU orchestration and workload management. Acquired by NVIDIA (2024).

Enfabrica

US · San Jose, CA

ACF-S SuperNIC. 3.2 Tbps, designed for 500K GPU clusters.

Horizon Robotics

CN · Beijing

Chinese AI chip company focused on autonomous driving and robotics. Journey series processors for ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Major supplier to Chinese automakers.

Google TPU

US · Mountain View, CA

Tensor Processing Units. TPU v5p, Trillium, powering Gemini and Cloud AI.

AI accelerator startup. $28M Series A (Dec 2025).

Thunder Compute

US · Atlanta, GA

GPU virtualization over TCP - the VMware for GPUs. 6x efficiency through oversubscription. A100s from $0.66/hr.

Momenta

CN · Beijing

Chinese autonomous driving company developing AI algorithms and computing platforms. Works on L4 autonomous driving solutions with Chinese OEMs.

Microsoft Maia

US · Redmond, WA

Azure Maia AI accelerator. Custom chip for Azure AI, Cobalt ARM CPU.

Taalas

CA · Toronto, Canada

Automated flow for implementing deep learning models in silicon. Entire LLM on one chip without external memory. Founded by Tenstorrent veterans.

Optical Processing Units (OPUs). $7.5M seed, memory-intensive AI.

Neurophos

GR · Athens, Greece

Silicon photonic neural network accelerators. Integrated photonic chips for AI inference.

Empower Semiconductor

US · San Jose, CA

High-performance integrated power management for xPUs, enabling full processor speed with IVR technology.

MatX

US · Mountain View, CA

AI accelerator startup founded by ex-Google TPU engineers. Custom chips for AI training and inference.

Kinara

US · San Jose, CA

Edge AI processors for computer vision. Ara-2 NPU, formerly Deep Vision. Renesas partnership.

Ventana Micro Systems

US · Cupertino, CA

High-performance RISC-V CPU chiplets for data centers. Veyron processor, 192 cores, D2D interfaces.

Lumai

GB · Oxford, UK

Free-space optical AI accelerators using diffractive neural networks for ultra-fast inference.

Circuit Mind

GB · London, UK

AI-driven electronics design software. Automates schematic capture and component selection.

HyperCIM

US · San Jose, CA

Compute-in-memory AI accelerators for edge inference. Ultra-low power neural network processing.

Ubitium

EU · Europe

Universal RISC-V processor handling CPU, GPU, DSP, and FPGA workloads on single chip architecture.

Crusoe Energy

US · Denver, CO

Sustainable AI compute. Flare gas-powered data centers for AI.

Aspirare Semi

CA · Canada

Analog computing hardware for energy-efficient AI workloads with multiple accelerator generations.

Metalware

US · San Francisco, CA

Y Combinator-backed AI tools for accelerating HDL and embedded C/C++ development from datasheets.

Gemesys

CA · Toronto, Canada

Analog AI accelerators using memristive crossbar arrays for neural network inference.

Ceremorphic

US · San Jose, CA

High-performance AI training chips with hierarchical deep learning architecture. Founded by former Intel VP.

Openchip

ES · Barcelona, Spain

European systems company integrating RISC-V accelerators and SoCs. Leading EU DARE project.

Corintis

EU · Europe

In-chip microfluidic cooling system for data centers. Revolutionary thermal management for AI chips.

Analog AI inference chips. Ultra-low power continuous signal processing.

Photonic Fabric optical interconnects. Acquired by Marvell ($3.25B, Dec 2025).

Opteran

GB · Sheffield

Brain-inspired autonomous machine intelligence. Natural Intelligence algorithms from insect brain research.

Vastai Technologies

CN · China

AI acceleration chip developer for cloud and edge computing applications in Chinese market.

Renesas Electronics

JP · Tokyo

Japanese semiconductor giant. Automotive MCUs, analog, power, AI/ML edge processors. Multiple acquisitions.

Zettascale

US · San Francisco, CA

Energy-efficient reconfigurable XPUs for AI training and inference. Polymorphic dataflow architecture optimizes per model.

Fabric Cryptography

US · Santa Clara, CA

Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU) for zero-knowledge proofs and FHE. Founded by MIT/Stanford dropouts.

Samsung Foundry

KR · Hwaseong, Gyeonggi

Samsung's semiconductor foundry business. 2nd largest foundry globally. 3nm GAA process, advanced packaging. Major NVIDIA and Qualcomm supplier.

Celus

DE · Munich, Germany

AI-powered PCB and electronic design automation. Generative design for hardware engineers.

Astera Labs

US · Santa Clara, CA

AI connectivity semiconductors. ~$10B market cap (public), PCIe/CXL retimers and smart cables.

Morphing Machines

IN · Chennai, India

Reconfigurable processor technology (REDEFINE) for AI/ML acceleration. IIT Madras incubated startup.