Chips
The processors that train and run models, and the factories, machines and memory that make them. The most profitable part of the whole industry today.
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Chip design
Designing the processors that train and run AI: Nvidia's GPUs, and custom chips built for Google, Amazon and others.
the default AI chip
$89.0B data centre revenue in the quarter to July 2026 (fiscal Q2 2027), out of $96.2B total
Open profileIs designing its own AI chip with Broadcom, to run beside its Nvidia and AMD systems.
About $13B revenue in 2025, against about $34B of costs (reported)
Open profileits own AI chips
25% of AI chip supply (Epoch AI)
Open profileits own AI chips
5% of AI chip supply (Epoch AI)
Open profiledesigns custom chips for the big clouds
AI chip revenue $16.7B in a quarter, up 221%
Open profileMakes fast inference chips for running models, built around its own LPU design.
$3.5B in a 2026 round that followed its Nvidia licensing deal
Open profileMakes very large single-chip AI systems built for fast answers from models.
$510M in 2025, with $87.9M net income
Open profileDesigns custom AI chips for large cloud customers, and the optical chips that link data centres.
$2.006B in the quarter to July 2026 (fiscal Q2 2026), up 58%
Open profileLicenses the processor designs (CPU cores) that most of the world's chips are built on, and earns royalties on each chip sold.
$4.92B for the year to March 2026, a record
Open profileSells chip-design software and design blocks used to build AI and other chips.
$1.58B in the quarter to June 2026, up 24.2%. Full-year 2026 guidance about $6.3B
Open profileSells the software that engineers use to design and check AI chips, plus the chip building blocks they reuse.
$2.477B in the quarter to July 2026 (fiscal Q3 2026), up from $1.740B a year earlier. Full-year guidance about $9.7B
Open profilethe main GPU rival
Deal to supply up to 6 GW of chips to OpenAI from late 2026
Open profileDesigns AI chips and systems for running large models for companies and governments.
About $11B after a round of about $1B (July 2026)
Open profileDesigns chips built only for running transformer models, the design behind most current AI.
$500M Series B round in January 2026
Open profileDesigns AI chips and open source chip designs, led by chip designer Jim Keller.
Open profileMaking the chips
Fabricating AI chips and the high-speed memory stacked beside them, using lithography machines and advanced packaging.
AI memory
33% of the AI memory market (Q2 2026)
Open profileleading maker of AI memory (HBM)
76% operating margin in Q2 2026. 50% of the memory market
Open profilemakes most advanced AI chips
Up to $54.3B sales in one quarter. Profit up 69%
Open profileMakes the testers that check AI chips and memory before they ship.
About 1.13 trillion yen for fiscal 2026, up about 45% (reported)
Open profilePackages and tests chips for AI, including the 2.5D and fan-out packaging that joins GPUs to memory.
Record $1.68B in Q1 2026, with advanced products $1.37B up 29%
Open profileMakes the etch and deposition machines used to build AI memory and advanced chips.
$6.72B in fiscal Q4 2026 (reported late July 2026), up 30%
Open profileAI memory
Record $41.46B in fiscal Q3 2026 (reported)
Open profilethe only maker of the machines that print the smallest chips
Raised guidance three times this year. Customers asking about 2029 and 2030
Open profileThe largest outsourced chip packaging and testing firm, expanding its advanced packaging for AI.
Assembly, testing and materials revenue up nearly 30% to a record in Q1 2026
Open profileMakes CPUs and runs Intel Foundry, which is trying to become a contract chipmaker for others.
The US government holds a 9.9% stake (since August 2025)
Open profileSells the machines that deposit and shape the layers of AI chips and memory.
Open profileMakes the bonding machines that stack the layers of high-bandwidth memory.
Open profileMakes inspection and measurement tools that find defects in chips while they are being made.
Open profileChina's largest contract chipmaker, producing advanced chips for Chinese AI designers under US export limits.
Open profileMakes coating, etching and cleaning machines used in chip factories, including for AI memory.
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