Design (Fabless) companies
100 companies in the Design (Fabless) part of the semiconductor & AI value chain.
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Companies
- NVIDIA — Dominant AI accelerator and GPU designer; also networking via Mellanox line.
- Broadcom — Networking silicon leader and main designer of hyperscaler custom AI chips.
- Qualcomm — Leading smartphone SoC and modem designer, expanding into PC and auto.
- MediaTek — Highest-volume smartphone SoC vendor; strong in TV and connectivity chips.
- Novatek Microelectronics — Top display driver IC and timing controller designer.
- Espressif Systems — Maker of the ubiquitous ESP32 WiFi/Bluetooth microcontrollers.
- Nordic Semiconductor — Leader in Bluetooth Low Energy wireless SoCs.
- ASPEED Technology — Dominant supplier of BMC server management chips.
- OpenAI — Leading AI lab (ChatGPT); designing custom inference silicon with Broadcom.
- Alphabet (Google) — Designs TPU AI accelerators and Tensor phone SoCs for internal use.
- Apple — Designs A/M-series SoCs and modems for its own devices; TSMC's largest customer.
- Amazon (Annapurna Labs) — Designs Graviton CPUs and Trainium AI chips for AWS via Annapurna Labs.
- AMD — x86 CPU and Instinct GPU designer; owns Xilinx FPGA franchise.
- Marvell Technology — Data infrastructure silicon: custom AI compute, optical DSPs, storage.
- Alibaba Group — Chinese cloud leader; T-Head designs Yitian CPUs and Hanguang AI chips.
- Astera Labs — Connectivity chips (retimers, CXL, PCIe switches) for AI servers.
- GigaDevice Semiconductor — Top-three NOR flash vendor and Chinese MCU designer.
- Microchip Technology — MCU and analog IDM with broad industrial catalog and FPGA line.
- Baidu — Chinese AI and cloud leader; designs Kunlun AI accelerators.
- ZTE — Chinese telecom-equipment maker; designs chips via its Sanechips unit.
- Lattice Semiconductor — Leader in small, low-power FPGAs.
- Global Unichip (GUC) — TSMC-affiliated ASIC design services company for advanced nodes.
- Semtech — LoRa wireless franchise plus optical data center connectivity chips.
- Ingenic Semiconductor — Chinese MCU, edge SoC, and automotive memory designer.
- Realtek Semiconductor — High-volume connectivity, audio codec and Ethernet chip designer.
- Alchip Technologies — ASIC design services leader for AI and HPC chips on TSMC processes.
- Rockchip — Chinese application processor designer for tablets, IoT and edge AI.
- MaxLinear — Broadband, connectivity, and infrastructure mixed-signal chip designer.
- Silicon Labs — Wireless MCUs for IoT: Zigbee, Thread, Matter and BLE.
- Amlogic — Set-top box, TV and smart home SoC designer.
- Allwinner Technology — Chinese application processor designer for tablets, IoT, and auto.
- ASMedia Technology — High-speed I/O controller designer (USB, PCIe, SATA).
- Socionext — Japanese custom SoC design house for auto and data center customers.
- Nuvoton Technology — Microcontroller and analog maker; owns Panasonic's former semi business.
- Faraday Technology — Taiwanese ASIC design-service and silicon IP provider.
- u-blox — Positioning (GNSS) and wireless communication chips and modules.
- Raydium Semiconductor — Display driver IC maker for panels and touch.
- LX Semicon — Korea's largest fabless display driver IC designer, an LG affiliate.
- Magnachip Semiconductor — Display driver and power IDM with analog mixed-signal heritage.
- Airoha Technology — Wireless connectivity and audio SoC designer in the MediaTek group.
- Altera — FPGA maker; former Intel PSG, now majority-owned by Silver Lake.
- HiSilicon — Huawei's chip design arm: Kirin SoCs and Ascend AI accelerators.
- Huawei — Chinese networking and cloud giant; Ascend AI accelerators via HiSilicon.
- Intel — x86 CPU IDM building an external foundry business on 18A and beyond.
- Cambricon Technologies — China's flagship listed AI accelerator designer.
- Hygon Information Technology — Chinese x86 CPU and DCU accelerator designer (AMD-licensed lineage).
- Credo Technology — Active electrical cables and SerDes connectivity for data centers.
- Loongson Technology — Chinese CPU designer with its own LoongArch instruction set.
- Achronix — Fabless FPGA and embedded-FPGA (eFPGA) IP supplier.
- Ampere Computing — Arm-based server CPU designer for cloud and hyperscale.
- Axelera AI — European edge AI accelerator startup.
- Biren Technology — Chinese GPGPU startup for AI training.
- Cerebras Systems — Wafer-scale AI processor maker; IPO process underway.
- d-Matrix — In-memory-compute AI inference chip startup.
- Enflame Technology — Chinese AI training and inference chip designer backed by Tencent.
- Etched — Startup building transformer-specialized inference ASICs (Sohu).
- FuriosaAI — Korean AI inference chip startup.
- Graphcore — AI accelerator (IPU) maker acquired by SoftBank in 2024.
- Groq — AI inference chip and cloud provider built on its LPU architecture.
- Hailo — Israeli edge AI accelerator startup.
- Moore Threads — Chinese GPU startup targeting graphics and AI compute.
- Rebellions — Korean AI accelerator startup formed by merger with Sapeon.
- SambaNova Systems — AI chip and systems startup building reconfigurable dataflow accelerators.
- StarFive — Chinese RISC-V CPU IP and SoC company.
- Tenstorrent — AI accelerator and RISC-V IP company led by Jim Keller.
- UNISOC — China's largest independent mobile SoC designer after HiSilicon.
- Microsoft — Designs Maia AI accelerators and Cobalt server CPUs for Azure.
- Tesla — Designs FSD and AI training chips for its vehicles and data centers.
- Meta Platforms — Designs MTIA inference accelerators for its own data centers.
- Montage Technology — Memory interface buffer chips for server DIMMs.
- Synaptics — Human interface and IoT connectivity chip designer.
- Himax Technologies — Display drivers plus ultralow-power AI vision sensors.
- Ambarella — Low-power computer vision SoCs for cameras and automotive.
- Elan Microelectronics — Touchpad, touchscreen, and microcontroller designer.
- Sino Wealth Electronic — Chinese MCU and mixed-signal chip designer.
- Actions Technology — Audio and IoT SoC designer.
- MegaChips — Japanese ASIC and system-LSI designer.
- indie Semiconductor — Automotive-focused fabless designer for ADAS and user experience chips.
- Fitipower — Display driver and power management IC designer.
- Holtek Semiconductor — Taiwanese microcontroller and analog IC maker.
- QuickLogic — Low-power FPGA and embedded-FPGA IP company.
- Valens Semiconductor — Connectivity chip maker (MIPI A-PHY, HDBaseT).
- Blaize — Edge AI inference processors and a software platform.
- Telechips — Korean automotive infotainment and display SoC designer.
- Efinix — FPGA startup with a quantum-fabric architecture for edge applications.
- Esperanto Technologies — RISC-V based AI inference accelerators.
- Gowin Semiconductor — Chinese FPGA maker.
- Ilitek — Touch and display driver IC designer.
- Kneron — Edge AI neural-processing chips and software.
- Mythic — Analog in-memory-compute AI inference chip startup.
- Parade Technologies — High-speed interface and display timing controller designer.
- Phytium — Chinese Arm-based server and desktop CPU designer.
- Semidynamics — Customizable RISC-V cores with vector and AI extensions.
- Sequans Communications — Cellular IoT (5G/4G) chipmaker.
- SiMa.ai — Edge AI MLSoC for embedded, robotics, and automotive inference.
- SiPearl — European HPC processor designer (Rhea) for exascale computing.
- Sitronix Technology — Taiwanese display driver IC designer.
- Telink Semiconductor — Low-power wireless IoT SoC designer.
- Ventana Micro Systems — RISC-V data-center CPU chiplet designer.
- Zhaoxin — Chinese x86 CPU joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai government.