Ren Zhengfei (任正非) founded Huawei in 1987 and continues to lead as CEO. Three other executives—Guo Ping (郭平), Eric Xu (徐直军), and Ken Hu (胡厚崑)—run its three main business units and manage day-to-day operations under Ren. Huawei, one of the world’s leading communications equipment suppliers, has suffered under US sanctions that cut off its access to advanced foundry services.

AMD’s latest data center GPU product, MI300X, is comparable to Nvidia’s H100 and could potentially grab market share from Nvidia in the red-hot AI market. AMD is on to its third generation of data center AI chip products. Its ROCm software stack has made significant progress in recent years, although it is yet to meet the maturity of Nvidia’s software stack.

Ambient Scientific is a Silicon Valley startup that has developed a new AI processor based on analog-circuit techniques. CEO Gajendra Singh, previously VP of Engineering at Wave Computing, launched the company in 2017. It remained in stealth mode until its 2019 announcement of the GPX-10, which followed the close of its $17 million Series A funding.