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Specialized Compute Architectures
Novel hardware designs and processing pipelines tailored for specific computational tasks, such as graphics rendering, neural network operations, or matrix transformations, often involving custom circuits, memory arrays, or data flow mechanisms.
16,151 US filings from 1,626 companies since 2023 · 2023: 4,027 · 2024: 4,940 · 2025: 4,822 · 2026 YTD: 2,362
Computer Hardware Architecture
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 | 1,850 | 481 | 627 | 550 | 192 | -12.3% |
| 2 | Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | 729 | 168 | 237 | 203 | 121 | -14.3% |
| 3 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 708 | 168 | 201 | 224 | 115 | +11.4% |
| 4 | Nvidia Corporation | 686 | 128 | 163 | 225 | 170 | +38.0% |
| 5 | Arm Limited | 486 | 87 | 148 | 164 | 87 | +10.8% |
| 6 | International Business Machines Corporation | 422 | 149 | 120 | 104 | 49 | -13.3% |
| 7 | QUALCOMM Incorporated | 411 | 86 | 128 | 124 | 73 | -3.1% |
| 8 | Imagination Technologies Limited | 400 | 112 | 128 | 121 | 39 | -5.5% |
| 9 | GOOGLE LLC | 391 | 94 | 133 | 124 | 40 | -6.8% |
| 10 | Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC | 385 | 103 | 112 | 100 | 70 | -10.7% |
| 11 | Micron Technology, Inc. | 295 | 98 | 109 | 60 | 28 | -45.0% |
| 12 | Apple Inc. | 287 | 62 | 87 | 102 | 36 | +17.2% |
| 13 | SambaNova Systems, Inc. | 245 | 57 | 65 | 86 | 37 | +32.3% |
| 14 | DELL PRODUCTS L.P. | 244 | 36 | 91 | 63 | 54 | -30.8% |
| 15 | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. | 239 | 56 | 84 | 66 | 33 | -21.4% |
| 16 | TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED | 234 | 46 | 92 | 70 | 26 | -23.9% |
| 17 | Amazon Technologies, Inc. | 185 | 45 | 59 | 55 | 26 | -6.8% |
| 18 | XILINX, INC. | 177 | 49 | 53 | 30 | 45 | -43.4% |
| 19 | SK hynix Inc. | 133 | 45 | 35 | 37 | 16 | +5.7% |
| 20 | ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC | 127 | 33 | 38 | 32 | 24 | -15.8% |
| 21 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP | 126 | 34 | 33 | 43 | 16 | +30.3% |
| 22 | REBELLIONS INC. | 116 | 14 | 47 | 45 | 10 | -4.3% |
| 23 | Fujitsu Limited | 108 | 44 | 19 | 28 | 17 | +47.4% |
| 24 | Robert Bosch GmbH | 82 | 19 | 23 | 23 | 17 | 0.0% |
| 25 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | 82 | 14 | 17 | 33 | 18 | +94.1% |