50 Best Semiconductor Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent semiconductor companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 14,648 companies tracked on Fsome.

14,648
Total Companies
$386.3B
Total Funding
$26.4M
Avg Funding
Shenzhen
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
D-Wave Quantum
D-Wave Systems designs and manufactures quantum computing and superconducting el…
Palo Alto $1.1B Post Ipo Equity 2025-11-19
2
Rigetti Computing
Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company that builds and deploys full-st…
Berkeley 101 - 250 $783.5M Post Ipo Equity 2025-06-11
3
Celestial AI
Celestial AI develops an optical interconnect technology platform for data cente…
Santa Clara 101 - 250 $593.9M Series C 2025-03-11
4
Etched.ai
Etched.ai is an AI chip startup that develops Sohu, a chip designed specifically…
Cupertino 101 - 250 $625.4M Series Unknown 2026-01-14
5
Quadric
Quadric develops semiconductor intellectual property and tools for on-device art…
Burlingame 101 - 250 $73.8M Series C 2026-01-14
6
Ambiq Micro
Ambiq Micro is a semiconductor manufacturing company that develops mixed-signal …
Austin 101 - 250 $470.2M Post Ipo Equity 2026-01-21
7
SEALSQ
SEALSQ is a provider of semiconductors that develops secure chips, embedded firm…
Cointrin 251 - 500 $439.6M Post Ipo Equity 2026-03-16
8
Groq
Groq provides a platform and hardware infrastructure designed for AI inference w…
San Jose 251 - 500 $1.8B Series E 2025-09-17
9
Biren Technology
Biren Technology is an AI chip startup that develops intelligent processors for …
Minhang 101 - 250 $785.2M Series Unknown 2025-06-26
10
ECARX
ECARX is a global automotive technology provider with the capabilities to delive…
London 1K - 5K $839.9M Post Ipo Equity 2026-01-08
11
SeeQC
SeeQC is a semiconductor company that develops quantum computing systems and off…
Elmsford 11 - 50 $87.9M Series Unknown 2026-01-21
12
Ayar Labs
Ayar Labs develops optical I/O solutions for large-scale AI workloads to acceler…
San Jose 101 - 250 $874.6M Series E 2026-02-28
13
Arbe
Arbe Robotics offers real time 4D imaging radar software for autonomous driving.
Tel Aviv-yafo 101 - 250 $266.8M Post Ipo Debt 2025-12-30
14
IQM Quantum Computers
IQM Quantum Computers builds superconducting full-stack quantum computer systems…
Espoo 251 - 500 $626.6M Debt Financing 2026-03-30
15
Azimuth AI
Azimuth AI is an embedded silicon product company that offers highly differentia…
Folsom 11 - 50 $18.8M Series Unknown 2026-01-05
16
Moore Threads
Moore Threads providing graphics processing unit technology and services to corp…
Haidian 501 - 1K $528.7M Undisclosed 2025-11-26
17
FuriosaAI
FuriosaAI designs and develops data center accelerators for the most advanced AI…
Seoul 101 - 250 $266.4M Series C 2025-07-22
18
LIS Technologies
LIS Technologies develops laser isotope separation technology that utilizes infr…
New York 11 - 50 $64.4M Series Unknown 2026-01-12
19
d-Matrix
D-Matrix is a platform that enables data centers to handle large-scale generativ…
Santa Clara 251 - 500 $429.0M Series C 2025-11-12
20
equal1
equal1 is a hardware development laboratories company.
San Carlos 11 - 50 $73.2M Series Unknown 2026-01-15
21
AheadComputing
AheadComputing is a microarchitecture compute performance company that develops …
Beaverton 101 - 250 $83.1M Seed 2026-01-21
22
Butterfly Network
Butterfly Network designs a medical imaging device that reduces the cost of real…
Burlington 101 - 250 $605.6M Post Ipo Equity 2025-01-29
23
Cerebras Systems
Cerebras Systems is an AI computing system company that provides deep learning a…
Sunnyvale 501 - 1K $2.8B Debt Financing 2026-04-15
24
Mythic
Mythic develops analog matrix processors and key cards based on analog compute-i…
Austin 11 - 50 $289.6M Series Unknown 2025-12-17
25
Frore Systems
Frore Systems is a developer of thermal technology for consumer devices.
San Jose 51 - 100 $323.0M Series D 2026-03-16
26
Syntiant
Syntiant is a deep learning tech company providing AI voice and sensor solutions…
Irvine 1K - 5K $106.4M Series D 2024-12-28
27
Hailo
Hailo develops AI processors specifically designed to enable AI tasks on the edg…
Tel Aviv 101 - 250 $343.9M Series C 2024-04-02
28
Blue Current
Blue Current manufactures advanced solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, …
Hayward 11 - 50 $126.2M Series D 2025-12-08
29
Ampere Computing
Ampere Computing is a fabless semiconductor company that develops processors for…
Santa Clara 1K - 5K $813.8M Convertible Note 2022-04-01
30
SiMa.ai
SiMa.ai is a developer of machine learning technology to deliver a software-cent…
San Jose 101 - 250 $355.0M Corporate Round 2026-04-08
31
Rebellions
Rebellions develops AI accelerator chips and data center systems designed for ef…
Seongnam 251 - 500 $857.7M Series Unknown 2026-03-30
32
GS Microelectronics
GS Microelectronics provides manufacturing services for custom semiconductor sol…
San Jose 251 - 500 $66.0M Series Unknown 2026-03-23
33
Wiliot
Wiliot is an IoT company that develops self-powered tags that can be attached to…
Caesarea 101 - 250 $269.0M Series C 2021-07-27
34
Corintis
Corintis develops, produces, and tests microfluidic cooling for data center chip…
Lausanne 51 - 100 $53.5M Corporate Round 2025-12-02
35
PsiQuantum
PsiQuantum focuses on developing a scalable quantum computer using photonic qubi…
Palo Alto 501 - 1K $2.3B Series Unknown 2026-01-21
36
Navitas Semiconductor
Navitas Semiconductor develops a range of GaN power ICs for the power supply mar…
Torrance 251 - 500 $412.1M Post Ipo Equity 2025-11-07
37
Morse Micro
Morse Micro develops Wi-Fi HaLow chips that provide secure wireless connectivity…
Surry Hills 101 - 250 $205.8M Series C 2025-09-22
38
EeroQ
EeroQ designs quantum-computing hardware using a novel approach based on single …
New York 11 - 50 $7.2M Corporate Round 2025-12-04
39
Anello Photonics
Anello Photonics is a technology company developing a silicon photonic optical g…
Santa Clara 11 - 50 $28.3M Series B 2026-03-16
40
TeraDAR
TeraDAR offers 4D imaging sensors using Terahertz technology for high-resolution…
Boston 51 - 100 $174.6M Series B 2025-11-12
41
Axiado Corporation Inc
Axiado is a security processor company redefining hardware root of trust with ha…
San Jose 101 - 250 $205.0M Series C 2025-12-02
42
Krutrim
Krutrim is a technology company that provides an AI-based platform to develop an…
Bangalore 11 - 50 $303.6M Debt Financing 2025-02-04
43
Micron Technology
Micron Technology is a semiconductor company that produces DRAM, SDRAM, flash me…
Boise c 10001 max $8.9B Post Ipo Debt 2025-04-24
44
Credo Semiconductor
Credo is a provider of semiconductor solutions for the data center and 5G wirele…
San Jose 501 - 1K $108.0M Series D 2020-06-06
45
Lucidean
Lucidean develops optical links for AI and data center networks, combining photo…
Santa Barbara 1 - 10 $18.4M Seed 2025-12-11
46
Exus Renewables
Exus Renewables is an investment and asset management offers technical supervisi…
Madrid 101 - 250 $1.0B Debt Financing 2026-01-08
47
Intel
Intel designs, manufactures and sells computer components and related products f…
Santa Clara c 10001 max $30.0B Post Ipo Equity 2025-09-15
48
Rapidus
Rapidus is a manufacturing company that develops the next generation of logic se…
Tokyo 501 - 1K $4.0B Series Unknown 2026-02-27
49
MetaX
MetaX is a integrated circuit design company.
Shanghai 501 - 1K $347.2M Series B 2022-07-05
50
Space Forge
Space Forge develops reusable satellites for manufacturing materials in space.
Cardiff 51 - 100 $50.9M Series A 2025-05-14