Semiconductor & AI supply-chain companies in China

As of 2026-09-05, wafergraph tracks 83 semiconductor and AI supply-chain companies headquartered in China, across 12 value-chain segments, most of them in Design (Fabless) (21). The largest by market cap is Tencent at $508.9B; the 63 priced companies total $2.14T. 4 hold a monopoly or leader position in their segment.

Data as of 2026-09-05 · country = headquarters, not fab location · market caps from the daily wafergraph pipeline (Yahoo × SEC shares); unpriced companies are listed but not summed

Largest China companies by market cap

All 83 companies by segment

Design (Fabless) (21)

  • Espressif Systems — Maker of the ubiquitous ESP32 WiFi/Bluetooth microcontrollers. leader · $3.9B
  • Rockchip — Chinese application processor designer for tablets, IoT and edge AI. major · $11.9B
  • Ingenic Semiconductor — Chinese MCU, edge SoC, and automotive memory designer. major · $9.8B
  • Amlogic — Set-top box, TV and smart home SoC designer. major · $5.7B
  • Allwinner Technology — Chinese application processor designer for tablets, IoT, and auto. major · $4.7B
  • HiSilicon — Huawei's chip design arm: Kirin SoCs and Ascend AI accelerators. major
  • Cambricon Technologies — China's flagship listed AI accelerator designer. challenger · $100.5B
  • Hygon Information Technology — Chinese x86 CPU and DCU accelerator designer (AMD-licensed lineage). challenger · $84.4B
  • MetaX Integrated Circuits (Muxi) — Shanghai GPU startup founded by ex-AMD veterans; STAR-listed maker of training and inference GPUs. challenger · $37.6B
  • Loongson Technology — Chinese CPU designer with its own LoongArch instruction set. challenger · $6.1B
  • Biren Technology — Chinese GPGPU startup for AI training. challenger
  • Enflame Technology — Chinese AI training and inference chip designer backed by Tencent. challenger
  • Moore Threads — Chinese GPU startup targeting graphics and AI compute. challenger
  • UNISOC — China's largest independent mobile SoC designer after HiSilicon. challenger
  • Vastai Technologies — Shanghai fabless designer of 7nm general-purpose acceleration chips for AI, video and cloud workloads. challenger
  • Montage Technology — Memory interface buffer chips for server DIMMs. niche · $34.1B
  • Actions Technology — Audio and IoT SoC designer. niche · $1.1B
  • Gowin Semiconductor — Chinese FPGA maker. niche
  • Phytium — Chinese Arm-based server and desktop CPU designer. niche
  • Telink Semiconductor — Low-power wireless IoT SoC designer. niche
  • Zhaoxin — Chinese x86 CPU joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai government. niche

Analog, Power, RF (12)

AI & Data Center (9)

  • Tencent — Chinese internet and cloud giant developing in-house AI silicon. major · $508.9B
  • Alibaba Group — Chinese cloud leader; T-Head designs Yitian CPUs and Hanguang AI chips. major · $281.5B
  • Baidu — Chinese AI and cloud leader; designs Kunlun AI accelerators. major · $33.7B
  • ZTE — Chinese telecom-equipment maker; designs chips via its Sanechips unit. major · $23.6B
  • GDS Holdings — Leading Chinese data-center developer and operator. major · $6.3B
  • Chindata Group — Hyperscale data-center operator in China and emerging Asia (Bain Capital). major
  • Huawei — Chinese networking and cloud giant; Ascend AI accelerators via HiSilicon. major
  • New H3C — Chinese networking, server, and AI-infrastructure provider. major
  • 21Vianet — Chinese carrier-neutral data-center and cloud operator. niche · $1.8B

Equipment (Front End) (8)

  • NAURA Technology — China's largest domestic fab equipment maker across etch and deposition. challenger · $69.0B
  • AMEC (Advanced Micro-Fabrication) — Chinese plasma etch maker qualified at advanced foundries. challenger · $47.9B
  • Piotech — Chinese thin-film deposition (PECVD and ALD) equipment maker. challenger · $27.1B
  • Hwatsing Technology — China's leading domestic CMP (planarization) equipment maker. challenger · $18.0B
  • Zhongke Feice Technology — Chinese metrology and inspection equipment maker. challenger · $15.7B
  • Kingsemi — Chinese coater/developer and single-wafer cleaning equipment maker. challenger · $9.6B
  • Shanghai Micro Electronics (SMEE) — China's domestic lithography scanner developer. challenger
  • SiCarrier — Chinese semiconductor-equipment maker spanning process and inspection tools. challenger

Materials (7)

Distribution & Misc (5)

  • InnoLight Technology — Leading optical transceiver maker for AI data centers. leader · $141.9B
  • Eoptolink Technology — Optical transceiver maker for AI data centers. major · $80.2B
  • Luxshare Precision Industry — Began as a connector/cable maker, now Apple's largest China-based components supplier and assembler of AirPods, Apple Watch and iPhone. major · $62.6B
  • Accelink Technologies — Chinese optical component and transceiver maker. major · $20.7B
  • Inspur — Chinese server and AI-system maker. major · $17.0B

Memory (5)

IDM (4)

EDA & IP (4)

  • Empyrean Technology — China's leading domestic EDA software company. challenger · $7.3B
  • Primarius Technologies — Chinese EDA maker focused on circuit simulation and device modeling. challenger · $3.0B
  • StarFive — Chinese RISC-V CPU IP and SoC company. challenger
  • VeriSilicon — Chinese IP licensing and turnkey chip design services company. niche · $14.4B

Foundry (3)

  • SMIC — China's largest foundry, pushing advanced nodes despite export controls. major · $73.4B
  • Hua Hong Semiconductor — China's second foundry, specialty and power-focused. challenger · $24.3B
  • Nexchip Semiconductor — Chinese specialty foundry for display drivers and image sensors. challenger · $11.7B

OSAT (3)

  • JCET Group — China's largest OSAT (includes former STATS ChipPAC). major · $18.0B
  • Tongfu Microelectronics — Chinese OSAT and AMD's main packaging partner via JV fabs. major · $12.9B
  • Huatian Technology — Top-three Chinese OSAT provider. major · $7.7B

Equipment (Back End) (2)

Tracked revenue

64 of the 83 companies report revenue in the dataset, totalling $558.1B (latest fiscal year per company, SEC EDGAR or Wikidata).

Cite as: wafergraph, “Semiconductor companies in China — 83 tracked, ranked by market cap”, https://wafergraph.com/country/china/ (data as of 2026-09-05).

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