Companies

Developer of CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, SoCs, and high-performance components, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with operations in Austin, TX. Supplies data centers, gaming, AI, and embedded markets. Post-Xilinx acquisition, competes with NVIDIA and Intel in high-performance computing.

ARM Holdings plc, majority owned by SoftBank Group since 2016, designs CPU cores implementing the ARM architecture family of instruction sets, other chips, software tools (e.g., DS-5, RealView, Keil), SoC infrastructure, systems, and platforms. As a licensor and holding company in the semiconductor supply chain, it enables fabless design firms and IDMs to integrate its IP into chips for mobile, embedded, and server applications, without manufacturing itself. Its power-efficient architecture maintains dominance in mobile SoCs and expands into datacenters via partnerships including NVIDIA and AWS.

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (ASE), previously known as ASE Group and headquartered in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is a leading provider of independent semiconductor packaging and test manufacturing services. It occupies a critical midstream role in the supply chain, providing outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) services that enable fabless design firms and IDMs to outsource back-end manufacturing.

ASML Holding, Dutch supplier of photolithography systems including sole provision of EUV machines, forming a critical bottleneck in the advanced semiconductor supply chain.

Advantest Corporation, based in Tokyo, is a leading Japanese manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for the semiconductor industry, including Memory, SoC, and RF test systems, and of measuring instruments used in the design, production, and maintenance of electronic systems such as fiber optic and wireless communications equipment and digital consumer products.

Second largest OSAT provider with ~31,000 employees and $7.1B revenue (2022). Founded 1968; HQ in Tempe, AZ. Growing in advanced packaging for AI chips.

Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion, signal processing, and power management technology, producing analog, mixed-signal, and DSP integrated circuits for industrial, automotive, and communications applications.

Designs custom ARM-based silicon SoCs (A-series for iPhone/iPad, M-series for Mac) for its devices; fabrication outsourced to TSMC.

Second largest semiconductor equipment supplier by revenue (behind ASML). Supplies equipment, services, and software for semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar products, flexible electronics coatings, and packaging.

Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products that serve data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. As of 2025—amid the AI boom—Broadcom is one of the largest companies globally, and could be considered part of the Big Tech group and the Magnificent Seven, replacing Tesla.

Second-largest EDA company (after Synopsys) providing design software, verification tools, and semiconductor IP.

DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours. The company played a major role in the development of the U.S. state of Delaware and first arose as a major supplier of gunpowder. DuPont developed many polymers such as Vespel, neoprene, nylon, Corian, Teflon, Mylar, Kapton, Kevlar, Zemdrain, M5 fiber, Nomex, Tyvek, Sorona, Viton, Corfam, and Lycra in the 20th century, and its scientists developed many chemicals, most notably Freon (chlorofluorocarbons), for the refrigerant industry. It also developed synthetic pigments and paints including ChromaFlair.

Supplier of materials for semiconductor and high-tech industries, with ~8,000 employees and global manufacturing, customer service, and research facilities in the US, Canada, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan; headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts.

GlobalFoundries Inc., a multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company domiciled in the Cayman Islands and headquartered in Malta, NY, was spun off from AMD's manufacturing arm in March 2009. Privately owned by UAE sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company until its October 2021 IPO, Mubadala holds an 82% stake. It is the third-largest pure-play foundry, specializing in mature process nodes for automotive, IoT, and RF supply chains.

German semiconductor manufacturer specializing in power semiconductors, automotive semiconductors (leading in MCUs and power management), and security circuits. World leader in automotive semiconductors, power semiconductors, and security ICs. Spun off from Siemens in 1999; ~57,000 employees; ~€15B sales in 2025.

US-based semiconductor manufacturer historically focused on CPUs and currently expanding its foundry business. As of 2025, the company is partially owned by the United States government and was ranked as the world's third-largest chip manufacturer by revenue in 2024.

JCET Group is a publicly traded company headquartered in Jiangyin on China's eastern coast. It went public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2003. It is the largest Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) company in mainland China and the third-largest globally. JCET was formed in 1972, when Jiangyin converted a local factory to produce transistors. JCET provides semiconductor packaging, assembly, manufacturing, and testing products and services.

JSR Corporation is a Japanese chemical company and leading supplier of semiconductor materials. Founded in 1957, the company produces photoresists, CMP slurries, and other specialty materials critical to chip manufacturing. JSR is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and is a key player in the global semiconductor materials supply chain.

Supplier of wafer fab equipment, including process control and yield management systems, for all phases of wafer, reticle, IC, and packaging production in semiconductor and nanoelectronics industries.

Supplier of wafer-fabrication equipment for front-end processing (etch, deposition for active components and interconnects), back-end wafer-level packaging (WLP), and related markets including MEMS.

Lasertec Corporation is a Japanese company based in Yokohama that specializes in the development, manufacture and distribution of inspection and measurement systems used primarily in the semiconductor industry. In its niche, the company is the global market leader. Lasertec pursues a fabless strategy and outsources production to subcontractors, allowing it to concentrate on research and development. Its shares are listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and included in the Nikkei 225 index.

Data infrastructure semiconductor company. Strong in storage, networking, and custom AI silicon.

Fabless Taiwanese semiconductor company designing chips for mobile SoCs (strong in mid-range smartphones), wireless communications, HDTVs, tablets, navigation systems, consumer multimedia, DSL services, and optical disc drives.

Microchip Technology Incorporated is an American publicly traded semiconductor corporation that manufactures microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits.

Micron Technology, Inc.: Third-largest producer of DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM memory chips, supplying key components in the semiconductor memory supply chain.

NVIDIA is a fabless designer of GPUs, SoCs, and APIs for data science, high-performance computing, gaming, mobile, and automotive applications. In the supply chain, it relies on TSMC for advanced manufacturing, integrates high-bandwidth memory, and employs proprietary networking for data center systems. Its CUDA ecosystem supports parallel computing across these domains.

Dutch semiconductor design and manufacturing company (Eindhoven HQ) focused on automotive and industrial semiconductors, secure connectivity, and processing. ~34,000 employees in 30+ countries; $13.3B revenue (2023); third largest European semiconductor firm by market cap (2024). Originated from Philips (spun off 2006).

ON Semiconductor (onsemi), headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, is an American semiconductor supplier producing power and signal management, logic, discrete, and custom devices for automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace, and power applications. It operates manufacturing facilities, design centers, and sales offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, positioning it in both design and manufacturing segments of the supply chain. It ranked No. 483 on the 2022 Fortune 500 based on 2021 sales and among the top 20 worldwide semiconductor sales leaders based on 2016 revenues.

Qorvo, Inc. is an American multinational company specializing in products for wireless, wired, and power markets. The company was created by the merger of TriQuint Semiconductor and RF Micro Devices, announced in 2014 and completed on January 1, 2015. It trades on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol QRVO. Headquarters were originally in Hillsboro, Oregon, and Greensboro, North Carolina, but since mid-2016, the company has designated its Greensboro site as the exclusive headquarters.

Designer of semiconductors, software, and services for wireless technology, including mobile SoCs and modems. Holds key patents for 5G, 4G, CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA, and WCDMA standards.

Renesas Electronics Corporation is a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo. The name "Renesas" is a contraction of "Renaissance Semiconductor for Advanced Solutions." The company was established in 2002 as Renesas Technology through the merger of the semiconductor divisions of Hitachi and Mitsubishi Electric, excluding their DRAM businesses. In 2010, Renesas Technology merged with NEC Electronics to form the current company and adopting its present name.

One of the world's largest suppliers of DRAM (including HBM for AI accelerators) and NAND flash memory chips.

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), headquartered in Shanghai, is China's largest pure-play foundry, producing integrated circuits on customer designs from mature nodes (350nm) to 5nm-class processes using deep ultraviolet (DUV) multi-patterning due to U.S. export restrictions blocking extreme ultraviolet (EUV) access. It serves fabless firms like Qualcomm and Huawei with logic, RF, and power devices, ranking as Asia's second-largest foundry by capacity after TSMC. Key differentiators include its scale, reliance on DUV techniques for sub-7nm scaling, and emphasis on domestic Chinese demand to counter geopolitical constraints.

STMicroelectronics NV is a European multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the largest of such companies in Europe. It was founded in 1987 from the merger of two state-owned semiconductor corporations, Thomson Semiconducteurs of France and SGS Microelettronica of Italy. The company is incorporated in the Netherlands and headquartered in Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland. Its shares are traded on Euronext Paris, the Borsa Italiana and the New York Stock Exchange. It manufactures a wide range of microelectronics, including the widely-used STM8 and STM32 microcontrollers.

Japanese manufacturer of silicon wafers supplied to semiconductor producers worldwide.

A business unit of Samsung Electronics, Samsung Foundry is the world's second-largest semiconductor foundry by revenue. It provides advanced logic fabrication services for both internal (System LSI) and external fabless customers, and was the first to implement Gate-All-Around (GAA) transistor architecture at the 3nm node.

Largest memory chip maker globally by market share in DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM, pending confirmation from latest industry reports (e.g., Q3/Q4 2024 data).

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社SCREENホールディングス) is a Japanese semiconductor and electronics company, headquartered in Kyoto, engaged in the manufacture and sale of equipment for the manufacturing of semiconductors, flat panel displays, storage media and precision technology manufacturing equipment.

Japan's largest chemical company and global leader in semiconductor silicon (wafers), photomask substrates, and polyvinyl chloride. Critical upstream supplier.

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an American semiconductor company headquartered in Irvine, California, United States. The company's shares are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol SWKS and is a constituent of the S&P 500.

Largest EDA company. Supplies tools for silicon chip design/verification (digital/analog implementation, simulators, debugging), electronic system-level design/verification, and reusable IP components to the semiconductor design and manufacturing industry. Ranked 12th largest software company in 2024.

World's largest dedicated independent ('pure-play') semiconductor foundry. Produces ~90% of advanced logic chips (<7nm). Taiwan's largest company by market cap; majority foreign-owned with government as top shareholder. Accounts for ~30% of Taiwan Stock Exchange main index; Taiwan IC exports (~25% GDP) heavily reliant on TSMC.

Designer and manufacturer of automatic test equipment (ATE) for semiconductors and provider of industrial automation, based in North Reading, Massachusetts. Supplies major chip makers including Samsung, Qualcomm, Intel, Analog Devices, Texas Instruments, and IBM.

Analog and embedded processing semiconductors, accounting for >80% of revenue; one of the top 10 semiconductor companies by sales. Produces DLP technology, calculators, microcontrollers, and multi-core processors. Large internal fab capacity.

Major Japanese supplier of semiconductor equipment for IC, FPD, and PV fabrication, with strengths in coater/developers and etch. Subsidiary Tokyo Electron Device handles semiconductor devices and components. Formerly the largest IC/FPD equipment maker (2011); 2024 market cap US$114.6B ranks it 3rd in Japan and 12th globally among semiconductor firms.

Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is an Israeli company that manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, Silicon Photonics, SOI, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, power management (BCD), and non-volatile memory (NVM) as well as MEMS capabilities. Tower Semiconductor also owns 51% of TPSCo, an enterprise with Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (NTCJ).

United Microelectronics Corporation is a Taiwanese company based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It was founded as Taiwan's first semiconductor company in 1980 as a spin-off of the government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

Western Digital Corporation is an American data storage company headquartered in San Jose, California. Established in 1970, the company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDDs).

Wolfspeed, Inc. is an American developer and manufacturer of wide-bandgap semiconductors, focused on silicon carbide materials and devices for power applications such as transportation, power supplies, power inverters, and wireless systems. The company was formerly named Cree, Inc.