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Top 25 AI chip design companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 997 AI chip design companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 70,586 professional contacts across them, including 26,270 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Bangalore the largest hub.
This list covers AI chip design companies worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for AI chip design companies follow the table.
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 worldwide
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 | 12,135 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MediaTek (TWSE: 2454) is a global leader in fabless semiconductor design, providing solutions from the edge to the cloud.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Through strength, persistence, and adaptability, Realtek follows in the spirit of the crab.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 1,164 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 922 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We work to create silicon that enables the highest performing, most reliable and lowest power digital communication networks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 778 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a core subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup, UNISOC (formerly Spreadtrum) is a leading fabless semiconductor company committed to the independent R&D of core chipsets in mobile…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 762 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Imagination, we love engineering the semiconductor IP at the core of your favourite electronic products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 651 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Texas Instruments (TI) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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. | |||||
| 14 | 532 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GLOBAL UNICHIP CORP.(GUC) is a market leader in advanced ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 506 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 436 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Airoha Technology is a fabless IC design company and subsidiary of MediaTek, focusing on the Infrastructure of Fixed Networking Infrastructure and Wireless Edge AI Technologies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ARF Design has been a pioneer in providing comprehensive end-to-end chip design services to the global semiconductor industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 367 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Preferred Networks (PFN)’s mission is to make the real world computable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 324 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG), The AI Factory Platform Company, is a leading provider of memory and AI infrastructure, powering the AI factories of the future for enterprises…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SkyeChip is a Malaysia based design company dedicated to deliver cutting edge IP & IC solutions for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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. | |||||
| 24 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Scaledge is a rapidly growing product engineering services company specializing in Semiconductor Chip - Design & Verification, Processors, System Design, and Embedded Software…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hailo is developing high-performance AI processors specifically designed to run AI tasks on the edge.” 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 worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for AI chip design companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide 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.
- 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, 26,270 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 location
6 lists · largest firstEvery AI chip design companies list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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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 worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 997 AI chip design companies worldwide 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 country has the most AI chip design companies?
The United States leads with 231 companies, followed by China (138) and India (122). Every AI chip design companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most AI chip design companies?
Bangalore leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by San Jose (32) and Santa Clara (28).
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 26,270 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 997 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.