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Top 25 AI chip designers based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 153 AI chip designers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 7,733 professional contacts across them, including 3,444 with verified work emails. Santa Clara is the largest hub.
This list covers AI chip designers 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 designers based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,216 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 2 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Frontier Inference Clusters” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atomic Machines is on Earth to radically advance humanity's command of matter.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AI Anywhere, a Paradigm Shift At Uniquify, we challenge the conventional neural network & AI technologies with our paradigm shifting Neural 2.0, which shrinks the neuron in neural…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MatX designs hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models: We dedicate every transistor to maximizing performance for large models.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Building sustainable AI compute through intuitive software with composable silicon” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SILICONOVA engaged in the design, packaging & testing of semiconductors and semiconductor devices, such as Central Processing Unit (CPU), Microprocessor (MCU), RISC and RISC-V…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Grovf Provides AI Infrastructure Back End Fabric IP, Chiplet, and NIC Running on 400/800Gbps Ethernet for Scale Out, Scale Up, and Scale Across.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Expedera provides customizable neural engine semiconductor IP that dramatically improves performance, power, and latency while reducing cost and complexity in edge and data center…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ventana is the RISC-V Performance leader, delivering platforms, chips, and IP for groundbreaking solutions across data center, automotive, client, and AI markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Positron delivers vendor freedom and faster inference for both enterprises and research teams, by allowing them to use hardware and software explicitly designed from the ground up…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MemryX, Inc.(memryx.com) is an AI chip startup company headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with branches in Taipei and Hsinchun, Taiwan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Apex Semiconductor is revolutionizing silicon realization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Backed by 25+ years of deep silicon expertise, Sintegra is the trusted chip design partner to both Fortune 500 leaders and fast-moving startups - from Google, Meta, and Nvidia to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NEUCHIPS is at the forefront of AI ASIC solutions, pioneering the development of purpose-built hardware for DLRM and LLM.” 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 designers. 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 designers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of AI chip designers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name AI chip designers. 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 designers 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 153 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 designers, 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 designers”. 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 designers), 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 designers, 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, 3,444 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.
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 designers, 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 designers are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 153 AI chip designers 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?
Ampere, headquartered in Santa Clara, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most AI chip designers?
Santa Clara leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by San Jose (14) and San Diego (8).
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 3,444 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 153 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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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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