Definition: semiconductor companies

Following are the companies in this encyclopedia that are involved in semiconductor manufacturing, many of which design AI chips. Fab means "fabrication," a company that makes chips. See chip manufacturing, fab and AI chip.

   ** = designs AI chips as part
        or all of the product line

   DESIGN ONLY (fabless)

   AMD (California) **
   Apple (California)
   FuriosaAI (South Korea) **
   Google (California) **
   Groq (California) **
   IBM (New York)
   Innatera (The Netherlands) **
   Normal Computing (New York) **
   NVIDIA (California) **
   Qualcomm (California)
   Samsung (South Korea)
   Synopsys (California)

   DESIGN & FAB

   Broadcom (California) **
   Huawei (China) **
   Intel (California)
   Micron Technology (Idaho)
   NXP Semiconductors (The Netherlands, U.S., etc.)
   Q.ANT (Germany)  **
   SK hynix (South Korea)
   TI (Texas)

   FAB ONLY

   GlobalFoundries (New York)
   SMIC (China)
   TSMC (Taiwan)

   CHIP MACHINERY
   ASML (Netherlands)
   Lam Research (California)
   Substrate chip company (California)