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Top 25 Fabless chip companies worldwide
RevenueBase identified 642 fabless chip companies worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 89,821 professional contacts across them, including 24,882 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Bangalore the largest hub.
This list covers fabless chip 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 fabless chip 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 fabless chip companies worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20,257 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 | 19,251 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1987, TSMC is the world's first dedicated semiconductor foundry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 4,110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maxim Integrated is now officially part of Analog Devices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 2,888 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tessolve offers a unique combination of pre-silicon and post-silicon expertise to provide an efficient turnkey solution for silicon bring-up, and spec to the product.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 1,731 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mirafra Technologies is a leading Turnkey ASIC Solutions provider and Semiconductor Engineering Services company, helping global technology companies accelerate innovation through…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 1,175 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 778 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 11 | 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. | |||||
| 12 | 634 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Faraday Technology Corporation (TWSE: 3035) is a leading fabless ASIC and silicon IP provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 570 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its founding in 2003, Synapse Designs' specialized design and engineering services have made us the preferred partner to numerous top-tier semiconductor and systems…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 564 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Silterra is a project of strategic national interest to promote front-end semiconductor manufacturing and a catalyst for high technology investments in Malaysia.” 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 | 436 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 17 | 401 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in we have grown into Korea's leading fabless company by advancing our system IC technology, which is applicable to various display across the IT field, to global…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 19 | 366 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Digicomm Semiconductor Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 362 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to BITSILICA!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 345 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At SmartDV Technologies™, we believe there’s a better way to approach semiconductor intellectual property (IP) for integrated circuits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic systems design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 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. | |||||
| 24 | 300 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sunplus Technology Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, design, testing, and sale of consumer integrated circuits (ICs).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 262 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
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: fabless chip 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 fabless chip companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of fabless chip companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name fabless chip 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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Fabless chip 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 fabless chip 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 fabless chip companies are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “fabless chip 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 fabless chip 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 fabless chip 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, 24,882 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.
Fabless chip companies by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Fabless chip 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 fabless chip 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 fabless chip companies are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 642 fabless chip 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 fabless chip companies?
The United States leads with 131 companies, followed by India (115) and Taiwan (28). Every fabless chip companies list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most fabless chip companies?
Bangalore leads with 38 headquartered companies, followed by Bengaluru (23) and Santa Clara (18).
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 24,882 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 642 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.