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AI/ML Hardware Acceleration

Specialized hardware, architectural designs, and computational methods to improve the speed, efficiency, and security of artificial intelligence and machine learning model execution, particularly for inference and data processing.

9,355 US filings from 1,096 companies since 2023 · 2023: 2,319 · 2024: 2,734 · 2025: 2,806 · 2026 YTD: 1,496

Computer Hardware ArchitectureHardware Platform (Cooling, Power, Packaging)Machine Learning & AI

Top companies

Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.

#	Company	Since 2023	2023	2024	2025	2026 YTD	YoY
1	INTEL CORPORATION	896	231	294	274	97	-6.8%
2	SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.	535	116	164	154	101	-6.1%
3	International Business Machines Corporation	352	110	111	78	53	-29.7%
4	Nvidia Corporation	313	60	80	87	86	+8.8%
5	GOOGLE LLC	306	62	97	110	37	+13.4%
6	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	274	65	74	83	52	+12.2%
7	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	270	66	63	79	62	+25.4%
8	QUALCOMM Incorporated	211	46	56	65	44	+16.1%
9	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	193	46	63	64	20	+1.6%
10	Micron Technology, Inc.	159	54	40	41	24	+2.5%
11	Arm Limited	156	32	51	39	34	-23.5%
12	Amazon Technologies, Inc.	139	32	42	39	26	-7.1%
13	Apple Inc.	139	38	39	49	13	+25.6%
14	Imagination Technologies Limited	136	34	49	41	12	-16.3%
15	DEEPX CO., LTD.	126	15	42	38	31	-9.5%
16	REBELLIONS INC.	123	15	54	40	14	-25.9%
17	SK hynix Inc.	115	39	33	30	13	-9.1%
18	DELL PRODUCTS L.P.	107	8	35	34	30	-2.9%
19	TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED	95	27	34	23	11	-32.4%
20	XILINX, INC.	88	22	21	20	25	-4.8%
21	Fujitsu Limited	79	42	8	18	11	+125.0%
22	SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION	72	25	16	17	14	+6.2%
23	ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE	71	17	17	21	16	+23.5%
24	SambaNova Systems, Inc.	69	15	21	25	8	+19.0%
25	CAMBRICON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION LIMITED	67	25	23	16	3	-30.4%