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IQM Quantum Computers Oyj is engaged in superconducting quantum computing and provides quantum computing systems and cloud platform access to enterprises, research institutions, high-performance computing centers, and national laboratories. Its offerings include quantum systems based on an open and modular architecture. The company has operations in Munich, Germany, and deployments across Europe, Asia, and North America.

XLMEC is the brand of Chongqing Xinlian Microelectronics Co., Ltd., a fabless designer of automotive-grade integrated circuits headquartered in Chongqing. It develops power management chips, sensor interfaces, and MCUs for electric vehicles and ADAS systems via xlmec.com. Certified to IATF 16949 standards, the company supplies tier-1 automakers in China's new energy vehicle sector.

SemiDrive is a Nanjing-based developer of automotive processors for ADAS, autonomous driving, and smart cockpits. Its X9H series supports L2+ autonomy with 8-core ARM Cortex-A and NPU delivering 4 TOPS, manufactured on SMIC 16nm. The company supplies chips to Chinese OEMs like Great Wall Motor and BYD for domain controllers.

Photonic is a Vancouver-headquartered company constructing a networked quantum computing platform using optically-linked silicon spin qubits. Its technology integrates photonics connectivity over telecom-band fiber for scalable, fault-tolerant quantum modules and networking.

Eliyan is a Milpitas-headquartered semiconductor innovator creating interconnect IP for chiplet ecosystems. The company's NuLink technology leverages standard organic substrates to deliver terabit-per-second bandwidth between dies, matching advanced packaging performance at reduced costs. Eliyan enables scalable multi-core processors for AI accelerators and data center servers with enhanced yield and testability.

Axera is designing AI system-on-chips for edge computing applications. The NPU-powered SoCs like the AX650A deliver up to 12 TOPS performance for computer vision in smart cameras and drones. Shenzhen-headquartered, Axera supplies semiconductors to surveillance firms and IoT device manufacturers worldwide.

Machxin Technology is a semiconductor company based in Shanghai, China, founded in 2026. The company designs integrated circuit chips and the software platforms that run on them. Its products are built around custom dynamic dataflow architectures aimed at AI workloads and edge-computing applications. The company targets automotive-grade inference hardware, matching chip layout to algorithms to improve scaling efficiency for transportation and other commercial uses. Revenue is expected to come from chip sales and related technical services.

Sunrise is a Shenzhen-based developer of high-performance GPUs for AI training, edge computing, and graphics processing. The company designs chips like the Sunhope series with up to 512 tensor cores, targeting data centers and autonomous vehicles. Manufacturing through TSMC processes, Sunrise supplies modules to Chinese hyperscalers and exports to Southeast Asia. Founded in 2018, it competes in the domestic semiconductor market amid US export restrictions.

SiFive designs customizable RISC-V processor cores and IP for embedded systems, IoT devices, automotive, and datacenter applications. Its Freedom platform includes microcontrollers, high-performance CPUs, and vector extensions with associated EDA toolchains. Santa Clara-headquartered SiFive licenses cores to Samsung, Western Digital, and Andes Technology. Founded in 2015, the company shipped over a billion RISC-V cores by 2023, powering chips from Qualcomm and NVIDIA partners.

XINYI Information Technology Ltd is a 5G IoT SoC vendor with R&D centers in Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, and Singapore, plus sales offices in Xi'an, Chongqing, Shenzhen, and a supply chain hub in Hong Kong. The company develops comprehensive chip solutions leveraging expertise from alumni of Broadcom, Qualcomm, Intel, Maxlinear, and top universities including UCLA, Tsinghua, and Peking University.

GTA Semiconductor is a Shanghai specialty-process semiconductor manufacturer founded in 2017 around Huada Semiconductor. It develops and runs wafer fabrication lines for automotive electronics, industrial control and high-end consumer electronics, producing microcontrollers, analog circuits, power devices and sensors for chip designers and integrated device makers. Its processes include BCD, IGBT, MOSFET and silicon carbide devices on 6-inch, 8-inch and 12-inch wafers, and it also offers mask, test and multi-project wafer services together with design kits. The company operates fabs in the Lingang area and in Xuhui, Shanghai. It took the Hong Kong-listed Shanghai Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation private through a merger by absorption, which gave it a long-established analog foundry. It has financed expansion through state-backed and industry investor rounds and is privately held.

Lightmatter is a Boston-headquartered designer of photonic computing chips that accelerate matrix multiplications for AI inference and training using silicon photonics. The Passage interconnect links GPU clusters with optical switches, while Envise processors target data center workloads in cloud and telecom sectors.

PsiQuantum is a quantum computing company that builds fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers on photonic qubits. It was founded by Jeremy O'Brien, Terry Rudolph, Peter Shadbolt and Mark Thompson, who developed the approach as academics in the United Kingdom. The company manufactures its silicon photonic chips in a commercial semiconductor foundry, GlobalFoundries, rather than in a research fab, and designs the cryogenic cooling, networking and control systems needed to link very large numbers of qubits. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is building large quantum computing sites in Brisbane, Australia and Chicago, Illinois. Customers and partners are governments, national laboratories and large enterprises that want access to quantum machines for chemistry, materials science, drug discovery and other simulation work. The company earns money from government agreements and development contracts and expects to sell access to its systems once they are commercially useful.

Fractile is a London-based startup that designs specialized AI inference chips using an in-memory compute architecture built to run large AI models faster and more cheaply than conventional GPUs. Founded in 2022, the company targets up to 100 times faster model execution and 10 times lower costs, or 20 times better performance per watt, and has hired senior engineers from Nvidia, ARM, and Imagination. Fractile positions its hardware to compete with the GPU-based AI infrastructure of incumbents such as Nvidia.

Silex Microsystem AB (publ) is a pure-play MEMS foundry. It is a specialized wafer fabrication facility (a fab) equipped with progressive equipment, technology, and processes required to manufacture MEMS. Its customers develop designs and then order MEMS from the company, after which the Company manufactures high-quality and customized MEMS to its customers' specifications.MEMS are used in a broad range of applications in, for example, telecom, consumer, industrial, automotive, medical, defense, and aerospace industries. The group manufactures MEMS for almost every end-use application sector, providing comprehensive solutions for its customers.

Pasqal Holding SA builds and operates neutral-atom quantum computers and delivers a full software stack to industry, science, and governments. The group's production-ready systems are available both on-premises and through the cloud, enabling organizations to harness quantum computing without requiring in-house quantum expertise. A single hardware platform supports analog workloads today and is designed to evolve toward fault-tolerant quantum computing in the future. Its quantum computing systems are used by customers across energy, financial services, and materials to address complex challenges. The group's customers include Saudi Aramco, Credit Agricole CIB, and LG Electronics, and supported by partnerships with NVIDIA and IBM.

POET Technologies Inc is a design and development company offering high-speed optical engines, light source products, and custom optical modules to the artificial intelligence systems market and hyperscale data centers. Its integration solutions are based on the POET Optical Interposer, a novel, patented platform that allows the seamless integration of electronic and photonic devices into a single chip using wafer-level semiconductor manufacturing techniques. POET’s Optical Interposer platform also solves device integration challenges across a broad range of communication, computing, and sensing applications. The company operates geographically in the United States, Canada, Singapore and China.