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Top 25 AI chip designers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 505 AI chip designers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 19,042 professional contacts across them, including 6,460 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Santa Clara the largest hub.
This list covers AI chip designers 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 designers 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 designers worldwide
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 | 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. | |||||
| 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 | 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. | |||||
| 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 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “UNISOC is the world's leading chip design company, developing innovative chip solutions for mobile phones, IoT, smart displays, and automotive electronics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 308 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 12 | 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. | |||||
| 13 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Frontier Inference Clusters” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Telechips Inc.(KOSDAQ: 054450) is a leader in fabless company fields introducing market leading products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 259 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Openchip is a European company that develops and produces powerful and efficient accelerators.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 252 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Alchip Technologies Ltd, founded in 2003 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading global provider of silicon and design and production services for system companies…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 236 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Axelera AI delivers an AI-native game-changing hardware and software platform to accelerate artificial intelligence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FuriosaAI designs and develops data center accelerators for the most advanced AI models and applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SiPearl is the European fabless designer of sovereign high-performance energy-efficient CPUs for supercomputers, AI and data centres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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. | |||||
| 24 | 153 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Socionext is a global enterprise that designs, develops and delivers System-on-Chips to customers worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Barcelona, Semidynamics is an advanced computing company with a team of over 150 employees.” 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 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 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for AI chip designers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide 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.
- 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, 6,460 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 designers by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery AI chip designers 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 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 worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 505 AI chip designers 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?
Ampere, headquartered in Santa Clara, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most AI chip designers?
The United States leads with 153 companies, followed by India (42) and the United Kingdom (26). Every AI chip designers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most AI chip designers?
Santa Clara leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by San Jose (14) and Bengaluru (11).
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 6,460 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 505 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.