HQ : Santa Clara , California CEO : Jensen Huang Revenue : $ 10.9bn First up , we have NVIDIA . Best recognised for its highperformance computer GPUs and video cards widely used throughout the gaming industry , the company ’ s recent purchase of UK-based semiconductor giant ARM has put it in a uniquely powerful position to grow its business beyond the gaming space - like the creation and impressive growth of its scalable AI car platform . Next year , expect to see NVIDIA higher up this list .

HQ : Dallas , Texas CEO : Rich Templeton Revenue : $ 14.1bn

Perhaps best known ( in the US at least ) for their de facto monopoly on the graphing calculators used in high school trigonometry and calculus classes , Texas Instruments is a firm with hidden depths . The company ’ s product portfolio runs the gamut , not just of digital , but also of analog semiconductors for use in the industrial , automotive , consumer , communications and enterprise systems sectors . Texas Instruments operates 14 fabrication facilities worldwide and its annual output in terms of chips is comfortably in the tens of billions .

162 May 2021