Hundertfünfundsechzig Unternehmen, und fast jedes ist ein Engpass, über den sich irgendjemand sorgt. Stöbern Sie nach Schicht, und beachten Sie, wie oft die Antwort auf „Wer sonst stellt das her?" niemand lautet – diese Konzentration ist die wichtigste Tatsache über diese Branche.
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TSMC
Wo fast alles auf dieser Seite physisch hergestellt wird.
ASML
Ein echtes Monopol ganz unten im Stack.
NVIDIA
Das Unternehmen, in dem der gesamte Ausbau denominiert ist.
Chip-Designer & Halbleiter
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AMDThe credible second source: Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs and the ROCm stack.
BT
Biren TechnologyShanghai GPU designer rebuilt around export-compliant parts.
BroadcomThe quiet giant of custom AI silicon and the switch chips inside every fabric.
CT
Cambricon TechnologiesChina's listed AI-chip champion and prime NVIDIA-substitution play.
CS
Cerebras SystemsThe wafer-scale company: one chip per wafer, sold as systems and cloud tokens.
ET
EtchedThe startup betting silicon permanence on the transformer architecture.
FU
FuriosaAIKorean inference-chip designer that reportedly turned down Meta.
GR
GraphcoreThe UK's IPU pioneer, now SoftBank's AI-silicon arm.
GR
GroqDeterministic inference hardware from the engineer who started Google's TPU.
HU
HuaweiChina's sanctioned giant: Ascend chips, CloudMatrix systems, CANN software.
IntelThe fallen incumbent betting everything on its 18A process and foundry turnaround.
MarvellCustom AI silicon and the electro-optics that carry data between racks.
NV
NVIDIAThe company the AI build-out is denominated in: GPUs, systems, networking and CUDA.
QualcommThe mobile-silicon giant re-entering the data center for inference.
RE
RebellionsKorea's merged national AI-chip champion, fabbed by Samsung.
SS
SambaNova SystemsFull-stack AI systems built around a reconfigurable dataflow architecture.
TE
TenstorrentJim Keller's open-source RISC-V AI company — chips, cards and licensable IP.
DM
d-MatrixIn-memory compute for the economics of small-batch inference.
Foundry & Packaging
5
ASE TechnologyThe world's largest packaging and test house (OSAT).
AT
Amkor TechnologyThe US-headquartered OSAT building advanced packaging in Arizona.
GL
GlobalFoundriesThe trailing-edge specialist that still fabricates Groq's LPU.
SM
SMICChina's leading foundry, pushing 7 nm-class production without EUV.
TS
TSMCThe indispensable factory: nearly every leading AI chip is made here.
Arbeitsspeicher
3
Micron TechnologyAmerica's memory maker, sold out of HBM generations in advance.
SK hynixThe HBM leader — NVIDIA's primary memory supplier through the boom.
Samsung ElectronicsMemory giant and foundry challenger, fighting back for HBM share.
Halbleiterausrüstung
7EDA & IP
3
Cadence Design SystemsThe other EDA duopolist — and a growing seller of AI-accelerated design.
SynopsysThe largest chip-design software company — every AI chip is designed in EDA.
Server & Hardware
9
Dell TechnologiesThe enterprise heavyweight whose XE9680 line became an AI-server franchise.
Foxconn (Hon Hai)The iPhone assembler that quietly became the largest AI-server builder.
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseSupercomputing pedigree (Cray) plus the Juniper networking acquisition.
JA
JabilUS manufacturing scale for servers, photonics and liquid-cooling hardware.
LenovoThe global #3 server maker with a strong liquid-cooling line (Neptune).
QC
Quanta ComputerThe hyperscalers' original ODM — racks straight to Meta, Google and AWS.
SU
SupermicroThe fastest mover in GPU servers — first to market with each NVIDIA generation.
WI
WiwynnThe pure-play hyperscale ODM spun out of Wistron.
Netzwerk
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CiscoThe networking incumbent pushing its own silicon into AI fabrics.
CO
CoherentOne of the largest makers of the optical transceivers AI clusters consume by the million.
CO
CorningThe fiber-optic cable itself — glass demand doubled by AI campuses.
CT
Credo TechnologyActive electrical cables — the copper that wires racks together.
FA
FabrinetThe contract manufacturer behind NVIDIA's optical transceivers.
LI
LightmatterPhotonic interconnect — moving light into the chip package itself.
LU
LumentumLasers and photonics for the optical layer of AI networks.
NokiaOptical transport and data-center routing — with NVIDIA as a 2025 investor.
TC
TE ConnectivityThe other connector giant wiring AI racks and power paths.
Strom & Elektrik
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CaterpillarGensets and gas engines — plus the machines digging the sites.
CumminsBackup generators — every hall's insurance policy.
DE
Delta ElectronicsPower supplies and cooling for a huge share of the world's AI racks.
EA
EatonSwitchgear, UPS and busway — the electrical spine of every data hall.
GV
GE VernovaAmerica's turbine and grid champion — sold out of gas turbines into the 2030s.
HE
Hitachi EnergyThe world's largest transformer maker — the grid's longest lead-time item.
InfineonPower semiconductors from grid to GPU — partner on NVIDIA's 800V architecture.
MH
Mitsubishi Heavy IndustriesThe third member of the gas-turbine oligopoly feeding AI campuses.
MP
Monolithic Power SystemsThe voltage regulators feeding each GPU its thousand amps.
NS
Navitas SemiconductorGaN power chips named into NVIDIA's next-gen power designs.
Rolls-RoyceBackup power today, small modular reactors tomorrow.
SE
Schneider ElectricPower distribution plus cooling (Motivair) — a full data-center electrical stack.
SE
Siemens EnergyGas turbines and grid equipment — order books stretched by AI power demand.
ON
onsemiSilicon-carbide and power chips pushing into data-center supply units.
Kühlung & Thermik
7Rechenzentrumsbetreiber
10
CyrusOneKKR/GIP-owned wholesale developer expanding for AI tenants.
DR
Digital RealtyWholesale data-center REIT with 300+ facilities on six continents.
EQ
EquinixThe interconnection king: 270+ data centers where networks meet.
GH
GDS HoldingsChina's leading carrier-neutral data-center developer.
IM
Iron MountainThe records giant that built a fast-growing data-center arm.
NG
NTT Global Data CentersJapan's giant with one of the world's largest colocation footprints.
QD
QTS Data CentersBlackstone's data-center arm — the largest private development pipeline in the US.
SW
SwitchThe Citadel and other US mega-campuses, taken private by DigitalBridge.
VD
Vantage Data CentersDigitalBridge-backed hyperscale developer building gigawatt campuses.
Versorgungsunternehmen & Stromerzeugung
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Sempra (Oncor)Owner of Oncor, the Texas wires company fielding a 100+ GW interconnection queue.
SC
Southern CompanyOwner of Vogtle — America's newest big reactors — amid Georgia's data-center boom.
TE
Talen EnergySusquehanna nuclear next to an AWS campus — the original co-location deal.
TE
TerraPowerBill Gates's Natrium reactor, under construction in Wyoming.
US Department of EnergyThe public sector's compute and power heavyweight: exascale labs, loans, reactors.
VI
VistraTexas's merchant power giant — nuclear, gas and batteries into ERCOT.
WE
WestinghouseThe AP1000 builder positioned for a US large-reactor revival.
XE
X-energyAmazon-backed high-temperature gas reactor developer.
Cloud & Hyperscale
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AlibabaChina's biggest cloud and the maker of Qwen — the world's most-forked open models.
Amazon Web ServicesThe largest cloud, building custom silicon and gigawatt campuses for Anthropic.
Google (Alphabet)The only company vertically integrated from TPU silicon to frontier models.
IBMEnterprise AI (watsonx, Granite) plus the quantum roadmap.
MicrosoftAzure, the OpenAI alliance, Copilot — and Fairwater-class AI factories.
OracleThe late-arriving cloud that bet the company on OpenAI and Stargate.
TencentWeChat's owner: Hunyuan models and China's other hyperscale cloud.
KI-Cloud
8KI-Labs & Software
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MetaOpen-weights standard-bearer turned superintelligence spender.
MI
MidjourneyThe bootstrapped image lab that never took venture money.
MI
MiniMaxShanghai lab spanning LLMs, video (Hailuo) and companion apps.
MA
Mistral AIEurope's frontier hope — efficient open models, ASML-led funding.
MA
Moonshot AIMaker of Kimi — trillion-parameter open MoE models with agentic focus.
OP
OpenAIMaker of ChatGPT and GPT-5 — and the buyer behind the biggest compute deals ever signed.
PA
PalantirOntology-driven AI deployment for governments and industry.
PE
PerplexityThe answer engine attacking Google head-on — browser and all.
PI
Physical IntelligenceFoundation models for any robot — the π0 lab.
RU
RunwayVideo generation for filmmakers — Gen-4 and Hollywood partnerships.
SS
Safe SuperintelligenceIlya Sutskever's one-product company: superintelligence, safely, nothing else.
SA
Scale AIThe data-labeling giant Meta bought half of for $14.3B.
SA
Stability AIThe company that open-sourced image generation — then nearly collapsed.
SU
SunoText-to-song generation — and the music industry's test case.
TeslaReal-world AI at automotive scale: FSD, Optimus, and the AI5 chip program.
TM
Thinking Machines LabMira Murati's lab — a record $2B seed and a fine-tuning product (Tinker).
WaymoThe only driverless service operating at real commercial scale.
ZA
Zhipu AI (Z.ai)Tsinghua-born lab behind the GLM open-model line.
XA
xAIElon Musk's lab: Grok models and the fastest data-center build ever seen.
Kapital & Investoren
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