THE SEMICONDUCTOR VALUE CHAIN
Fabless Chip Designers
• $GOOGL custom TPU & cloud AI chips
• $AMD high-performance CPUs & GPUs
• $NVDA AI accelerators & data center GPUs
• $AVGO network, connectivity & ASIC solutions
• $QCOM mobile & automotive semiconductors
• $TSLA in-house FSD & vehicle computing chips
• $META custom inference silicon for AI workloads
• $AAPL in-house SoCs for devices & AI compute
• $MSFT AI acceleration chips for Azure & Copilot
• $MRVL data center, storage & networking chips
Foundries
• $TSM world’s largest advanced-node manufacturer
• $INTC Custom Foundry contract manufacturing division
• Samsung diversified logic & memory foundry
• GlobalFoundries automotive & IoT foundry leader
Testing & Packaging
• $TER automated test equipment leader
• $AMKR outsourced packaging & test
• $AEHR burn-in & reliability test systems
Design Software, R&D Tools & IP
• $SNPS electronic design automation (EDA) software
• $ARM processor IP & architecture licensing
• $CDNS software for chip design & verification
• $LSCC low-power FPGAs for edge & industrial use
Manufacturing / Assembly Equipment & Fab Services
• $ASML lithography systems enabling advanced nodes
• $AMAT deposition & etch systems for chip fabrication
• $LRCX etch & deposition equipment
• $KLAC process control & metrology systems