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Top 25 Semiconductor chip designers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,187 semiconductor chip designers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 151,560 professional contacts across them, including 39,592 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. China is the largest market and Bangalore the largest hub.
This list covers semiconductor 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 17, 2026. Country and city lists for semiconductor 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 semiconductor chip designers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 30,434 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 19,251 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1987, TSMC is the world's first dedicated semiconductor foundry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 13,067 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GlobalFoundries (GF) is a leading manufacturer of essential semiconductors, enabling AI at scale from the cloud to the physical world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 4,469 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Qorvo (Nasdaq: QRVO) supplies innovative semiconductor solutions that make a better world possible.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maxim Integrated is now officially part of Analog Devices.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Through strength, persistence, and adaptability, Realtek follows in the spirit of the crab.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,011 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Please consider following the page of Infineon - as we are now Infineon -).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,731 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,687 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Soitec (Euronext - Tech 40 Paris), designs and manufactures highly advanced semiconductor materials that offer a significant performance edge over microchips based on generic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,360 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC) is the low power programmable leader.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip Technology Inc.(Nasdaq: MCHP), offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,164 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tenstorrent is a next-generation computing company that builds computers for AI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 913 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SmartSoC Solutions is a global leader in providing engineering solutions that help organizations design, build, and deliver complex, silicon-enabled and intelligent products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 762 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Imagination, we love engineering the semiconductor IP at the core of your favourite electronic products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 674 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SkyWater (NASDAQ: SKYT) is a U.S-based semiconductor manufacturer and a DMEA-accredited Category 1A Trusted Supplier.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 629 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Caliber Interconnect is an ISO 9001 certified design house serving to product-based technology business activities that need design and engineering expertise on a flexible basis…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 579 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mattson Technology designs, manufactures, markets and supports semiconductor wafer processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 570 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 552 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FM Industries, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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 17, 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: semiconductor 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 semiconductor chip designers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of semiconductor chip designers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name semiconductor 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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Semiconductor chip designers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
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 semiconductor 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
- 8 countries, largest first: China, the United States, India, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada. Country and city lists for semiconductor chip designers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “semiconductor 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 semiconductor 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 semiconductor 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, 39,592 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 17, 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.
Semiconductor chip designers by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Semiconductor chip designers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Semiconductor chip designers based in China376
- Semiconductor chip designers based in the United States331
- Semiconductor chip designers based in India280
- Semiconductor chip designers based in Taiwan50
- Semiconductor chip designers based in the United Kingdom46
- Semiconductor chip designers based in Germany38
- Semiconductor chip designers based in France35
- Semiconductor chip designers based in Canada31
Cities
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 semiconductor 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 semiconductor chip designers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,187 semiconductor 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?
Texas Instruments, headquartered in Dallas, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most semiconductor chip designers?
China leads with 376 companies, followed by the United States (331) and India (280). Every semiconductor chip designers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most semiconductor chip designers?
Bangalore leads with 78 headquartered companies, followed by Bengaluru (51) and San Jose (43).
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 39,592 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,187 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 17, 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.