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Groq was founded in 2016 by former Google engineers, including Jonathan Ross, who designed Google’s Tensor Processing Unit. The company’s singular focus: building inference infrastructure on custom silicon—the Language Processing […]

Designs and sells AI chips and accelerator cards for cloud training, cloud inference, and edge computing.

Arm designs processor architectures, compute subsystems, and production silicon that power the majority of the world’s smartphones, embedded devices, and an increasing share of cloud and AI infrastructure.

Designs and sells central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and adaptive computing chips for data centers, personal computers, gaming, and embedded systems, with a growing focus on AI training and inference hardware.

Lightmatter is a photonic computing company founded in 2017 by MIT researchers Nicholas Harris, Thomas Graham, and Darius Bunandar. The company develops silicon photonics technology to solve bandwidth constraints in […]

NVIDIA designs and sells graphics processing units (GPUs) and related hardware and software for AI computing, data centers, gaming, professional visualization, and autonomous vehicles.

Mobileye is an autonomous driving and driver assistance platform built on camera-based computer vision. Founded in 1999 by Prof. Amnon Shashua at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the company pioneered the […]

Graphcore is a Bristol-based semiconductor company that designs Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs)—specialized AI accelerators intended as an alternative to NVIDIA’s GPU dominance. Founded in 2016 by Simon Knowles (CTO) and […]

Cerebras designs and manufactures wafer-scale silicon chips and cloud inference services, positioning itself as an alternative to GPU-based AI infrastructure. Founded in March 2016 by Andrew Feldman, Gary Lauterbach, Michael […]

SambaNova Systems, founded in 2017 by Stanford professors Kunle Olukotun and Christopher Ré alongside ex-Oracle executive Rodrigo Liang, builds custom processors and software for AI inference at enterprise scale. The […]