China's AI chip designers
* HiSilicon is Huawei's in-house semiconductor design division, not an independent company. It is not separately listed and no IPO is planned or anticipated.
** T-Head is an internal chip design unit of Alibaba Group, not a standalone company. It is not independently listed and has no known IPO plans.
*** Companies marked ✅ in the "On US Entity List" column have been designated by the US Department of Commerce. This restricts their access to US-origin technology, software, and components, and limits their ability to work with key manufacturing partners — including TSMC, which fabricates on leading-edge nodes. In practice, affected companies must rely more heavily on domestic Chinese foundries such as SMIC, which currently lags behind TSMC by several generations.