Organizations
Explore companies, research labs, universities, nonprofits, and public institutions across the AI ecosystem.
NVIDIANVIDIA provides accelerated-computing hardware and software used across AI training and inference, including GPUs, CUDA, high-speed networking, and domain-specific libraries. Its research and product teams also work on foundation models, robotics, autonomous systems, graphics, simulation, and AI for science.
IntelAmerican semiconductor company; its labs research AI hardware, accelerators, and machine learning.
HuaweiChinese technology company with major AI, cloud, chip, telecommunications, and computer-vision research groups.
AMDAdvanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs CPUs (Ryzen, EPYC) and GPUs (Radeon, Instinct), the latter increasingly used for AI training and inference.
EtchedAI semiconductor company building frontier inference clusters through co-designed chips, racks, software, and manufacturing. Etched says its A0 silicon has returned from TSMC N4P, it has raised $800M across four financings, and it is preparing first rack shipments to fulfill more than $1B in customer demand. Investors include @Geoffrey Hinton, @Andrej Karpathy, @Fei-Fei Li, @Noam Brown, @Jerry Tworek, @Arthur Mensch, and more.
GroqAI chip company founded by Jonathan Ross, who had started Google's TPU effort. Builds the LPU (Language Processing Unit), an inference processor designed for fast, low-cost large language model inference.
CallosumCallosum develops infrastructure that coordinates different AI models across diverse chip architectures. Its systems-level approach aims to improve the capability, speed, and cost of AI workloads while opening new hardware choices to model builders and chip makers.
Qualcomm is a semiconductor and wireless-technology company founded in 1985 and based in San Diego. Its Snapdragon system-on-chips power most premium Android devices and a growing range of on-device AI workloads.
Ricursive IntelligenceSelf-improving systems, starting with chip design.
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean electronics manufacturer and the flagship subsidiary of the Samsung Group, a leading producer of memory chips, semiconductors, and consumer devices.
Xilinx was a semiconductor company founded in 1984 that invented the field-programmable gate array (FPGA); it was acquired by AMD in 2022.
Architect LabsAI hardware startup building systems for AI-designed silicon. The company announced a $24 million seed round in 2026.
Arm is a Cambridge, UK-based semiconductor IP company that designs the ARM processor architecture, which powers the vast majority of the world's mobile devices and is increasingly used in AI hardware.
Atero AIAI infrastructure startup with a founding team including former OpenAI engineer Ben Chess, focused on GPU and memory optimization for faster inference. Acquired by Crusoe in 2025.
CerebrasCerebras builds wafer-scale processors, systems, and cloud infrastructure for high-speed AI training and inference. Its Wafer Scale Engine replaces clusters of conventional accelerator chips with a processor spanning an entire silicon wafer.
Cypress Semiconductor was a San Jose semiconductor company known for embedded-system chips including NOR flash, SRAM, F-RAM, PSoC microcontrollers, USB, Bluetooth Low Energy, and IoT connectivity products. Infineon acquired Cypress in 2020.
Palo Alto AI company offering business chatbots, analytics and documentation tools; acquired by AI-chip company Groq in 2024 to launch GroqCloud.
GraphcoreGraphcore is a British semiconductor company in Bristol that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a chip built specifically for machine learning. It was acquired by SoftBank in 2024.
Generative-AI inference startup, founded in 2023 in Bellevue, Washington, optimising GPU inference for AI models; acquired by NVIDIA.
Horizon RoboticsChinese company designing AI chips and software for autonomous driving and edge devices.
Intel Labs is Intel's global research organization, working across artificial intelligence, compute, graphics, intelligent edge systems, programming and design, security, and privacy. Its AI work spans model systems, neuromorphic computing, hardware-software co-design, and future compute architectures.
Nervana Systems was a deep-learning software and hardware company founded by Naveen Rao, Amir Khosrowshahi, and Arjun Bansal. It built the Neon framework, Nervana Cloud, and custom deep-learning accelerator work before Intel acquired it in 2016.
Rigetti Computing is a quantum-computing company founded in 2013 by Chad Rigetti and based in Berkeley, California, building superconducting quantum processors and cloud access to them.
Semiconductor and AI research and consulting firm founded in 2020 by Dylan Patel. Publishes widely read analysis of the chip supply chain, data centers, and AI hardware through its newsletter and research service.