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Top 25 AI chip design companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 231 AI chip design companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 31,538 professional contacts across them, including 16,908 with verified work emails. San Jose is the largest hub.
This list covers AI chip design companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest AI chip design companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20,257 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,216 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A semiconductor design company leading the future of computing with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy efficient AI compute.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,175 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MaxLinear is a fabless semiconductor company that provides systems-on-chip (SoC) solutions used for broadband, mobile and wireline infrastructure, data center, and industrial and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 791 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Cerebras Systems is the world's fastest AI inference.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 674 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SkyWater (NASDAQ: SKYT) is a U.S-based semiconductor manufacturer and a DMEA-accredited Category 1A Trusted Supplier.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 613 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With an installed base of more than 42 million AI SoC units, Ambarella’s products are utilized in a wide variety of physical edge AI applications, spanning edge endpoint and edge…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 523 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2007, headquartered in Santa Clara (Silicon Valley) with operations in Dhaka, Bangladesh.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to SambaNova: Revolutionizing AI Capacity At SambaNova, we're empowering developers, enterprises, governments, and data centers to unlock their full AI potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Arteris (Nasdaq: AIP) is a leading provider of semiconductor technology that accelerates the creation of high-performance, power-efficient silicon with built-in safety…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 275 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bright Machines is a next-generation technology manufacturer that combines robotics and physical AI to bring AI and data center infrastructure production closer to the edge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 268 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are excited to announce that Marvell Semiconductor has acquired Aquantia!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 233 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dream Big Semiconductor is an emerging semiconductor startup that is dedicated to providing comprehensive low cost, low latency and high throughput solutions for AI, Datacenters…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif, Syntiant® is a leader in physical AI, delivering highly efficient processor, sensor and software solutions for speech, audio…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2004, Montage Technology is a leading IC design company dedicated to providing high-performance, low-power IC solutions for cloud computing and data center markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in July 2016, Black Sesame Technologies is an AI digital imaging technology firm that creates solutions for real-world AI challenges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ceremorphic has built a new architecture that delivers the performance required for next generation applications such as AI model training, HPC, drug discovery and metaverse…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping the paradigm of AI infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 119 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Xcelerium is a fabless semiconductor company that develops high-performance domain specific processors for converged workloads at the edge of the network involving wireless…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 103 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GSME is a leading-edge global supplier of integrated-circuit design & manufacturing solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marquee Semiconductor is a "Spec to FPGA/ACAP/Silicon Solution" provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ambient Scientific is a fabless semiconductor company born in Silicon Valley, pioneering ultra-low power AI processors that are fully programmable to enable endless AI…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “VeriFast Technologies is a premier product engineering partner bridging the gap between complex hardware architectures and intelligent software applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EnCharge AI is a leader in advanced hardware and software systems for AI computing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Faststream Technologies is a global engineering and product development company specializing in Semiconductor, AI Infrastructure, Physical AI, Wireless Communications, Embedded…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TetraMem is developing cutting-edge analog computing solutions for AI applications, offering exceptional performance with ultra-low power consumption.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: AI chip design companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names AI chip design companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of AI chip design companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name AI chip design companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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AI chip design companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 231 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among AI chip design companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “AI chip design companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names AI chip design companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among AI chip design companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 16,908 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
AI chip design companies by metro
- AI chip design companies in San Jose32
- AI chip design companies in Santa Clara28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names AI chip design companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many AI chip design companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 231 AI chip design companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Synopsys INC, headquartered in Sunnyvale, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most AI chip design companies?
San Jose leads with 32 headquartered companies, followed by Santa Clara (28) and San Francisco (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 16,908 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 231 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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