Custom Silicon Designers companies
18 companies in the Custom Silicon Designers part of the semiconductor & AI value chain.
Companies
- Broadcom — Networking silicon leader and main designer of hyperscaler custom AI 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.
- 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.
- Baidu — Chinese AI and cloud leader; designs Kunlun AI accelerators.
- ZTE — Chinese telecom-equipment maker; designs chips via its Sanechips unit.
- Global Unichip (GUC) — TSMC-affiliated ASIC design services company for advanced nodes.
- Alchip Technologies — ASIC design services leader for AI and HPC chips on TSMC processes.
- Socionext — Japanese custom SoC design house for auto and data center customers.
- Faraday Technology — Taiwanese ASIC design-service and silicon IP provider.
- Huawei — Chinese networking and cloud giant; Ascend AI accelerators via 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.
- MegaChips — Japanese ASIC and system-LSI designer.