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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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2
Companies
30
Money flows
35

Chip design

Designing the processors that train and run AI: Nvidia's GPUs, and custom chips built for Google, Amazon and others.

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Nvidia
NVDA Supplier

the default AI chip

$89.0B data centre revenue in the quarter to July 2026 (fiscal Q2 2027), out of $96.2B total

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OpenAI

Is 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)

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Google
GOOGL

its own AI chips

25% of AI chip supply (Epoch AI)

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Amazon
AMZN Supplier

its own AI chips

5% of AI chip supply (Epoch AI)

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Broadcom
AVGO Supplier

designs custom chips for the big clouds

AI chip revenue $16.7B in a quarter, up 221%

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Groq
Supplier

Makes fast inference chips for running models, built around its own LPU design.

$3.5B in a 2026 round that followed its Nvidia licensing deal

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Cerebras
CBRS Supplier

Makes very large single-chip AI systems built for fast answers from models.

$510M in 2025, with $87.9M net income

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Marvell Technology
MRVL Supplier

Designs 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%

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Arm
ARM Supplier

Licenses 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

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Cadence Design Systems
CDNS Supplier

Sells 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

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Synopsys
SNPS Supplier

Sells 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

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AMD
AMD Supplier

the main GPU rival

Deal to supply up to 6 GW of chips to OpenAI from late 2026

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SambaNova
Supplier

Designs AI chips and systems for running large models for companies and governments.

About $11B after a round of about $1B (July 2026)

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Etched
Supplier

Designs chips built only for running transformer models, the design behind most current AI.

$500M Series B round in January 2026

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Tenstorrent
Supplier

Designs AI chips and open source chip designs, led by chip designer Jim Keller.

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Making the chips

Fabricating AI chips and the high-speed memory stacked beside them, using lithography machines and advanced packaging.

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Samsung
005930 Supplier

AI memory

33% of the AI memory market (Q2 2026)

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SK hynix
000660 Supplier

leading maker of AI memory (HBM)

76% operating margin in Q2 2026. 50% of the memory market

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TSMC
TSM Supplier

makes most advanced AI chips

Up to $54.3B sales in one quarter. Profit up 69%

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Advantest
6857 Supplier

Makes the testers that check AI chips and memory before they ship.

About 1.13 trillion yen for fiscal 2026, up about 45% (reported)

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Amkor Technology
AMKR Supplier

Packages 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%

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Lam Research
LRCX Supplier

Makes 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%

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Micron
MU Supplier

AI memory

Record $41.46B in fiscal Q3 2026 (reported)

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ASML
ASML Supplier

the only maker of the machines that print the smallest chips

Raised guidance three times this year. Customers asking about 2029 and 2030

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ASE Technology
2311 Supplier

The 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

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Intel
INTC Supplier

Makes 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)

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Applied Materials
AMAT Supplier

Sells the machines that deposit and shape the layers of AI chips and memory.

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Hanmi Semiconductor
042700 Supplier

Makes the bonding machines that stack the layers of high-bandwidth memory.

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KLA
KLAC Supplier

Makes inspection and measurement tools that find defects in chips while they are being made.

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SMIC
0981 Supplier

China's largest contract chipmaker, producing advanced chips for Chinese AI designers under US export limits.

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Tokyo Electron
8035 Supplier

Makes coating, etching and cleaning machines used in chip factories, including for AI memory.

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The map updates three times a week.

241 companies across 25 areas, 62 money flows and 89 openings so far. New research lands every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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