Alternatives to AMD
Who this is for
If you're comparing AMD with other companies in HPC & Accelerated Compute, start here. These are the 19 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
The score is worked out the same way as “Most active” in the company directory; how we rank sets out the maths. Vendors can't pay to move up. Back to the AMD profile.
HPC & Accelerated Compute: AMD's main category
19 companies sit alongside AMD here, busiest first.
- Dell Technologies#5 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services…
- 48 stories in the last 90 days
- NVIDIA#1 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
- CoreWeave#15 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training…
- 46 stories in the last 90 days
- HPE#4 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services…
- 33 stories in the last 90 days
- Lenovo#6 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers…
- 37 stories in the last 90 days
- Arm#17 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Arm is a British semiconductor IP company founded in 1990 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It designs the Arm instruction set architecture and licenses CPU cores (Cortex…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Lambda#16 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud…
- 15 stories in the last 90 days
- Intel#3 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Intel is a US semiconductor company that designs and manufactures x86 processors, including Xeon data centre CPUs and Core client processors, along with Gaudi AI accelerators…
Evidence is still building for Intel.
- Bull#10 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Bull is a French advanced computing company specialising in high-performance computing, AI infrastructure and quantum computing. It designs and manufactures BullSequana…
Evidence is still building for Bull.
- Cerebras#12 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Cerebras Systems is a US AI computing company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It builds the Wafer-Scale Engine, a processor made from an entire silicon…
Evidence is still building for Cerebras.
- Fujitsu#9 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Fujitsu is a Japanese information and communications technology company providing IT services, consulting, servers, storage and advanced computing. It co-developed the Fugaku…
Evidence is still building for Fujitsu.
- Graphcore#20 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Graphcore is a British semiconductor company that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architecture for machine learning, together with the Poplar software…
Evidence is still building for Graphcore.
- Groq#13 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Groq is a US AI chip and inference company that designed the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a deterministic processor built for fast, low-latency inference of large language…
Evidence is still building for Groq.
- IBM#8 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
- Penguin Solutions#11 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Penguin Solutions is a technology company that designs, builds, deploys and manages high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, and also sells specialty memory and LED…
Evidence is still building for Penguin Solutions.
- Qualcomm#18 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Qualcomm is a US semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 1985. It designs Snapdragon system-on-chips, 5G modems and RF…
Evidence is still building for Qualcomm.
- SambaNova#14 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
SambaNova, formally SambaNova Systems, is an AI computing company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. It designs Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU)…
- 1 story in the last 90 days
- Supermicro#7 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Supermicro (Super Micro Computer, Inc.) is a US maker of servers, storage systems and data centre infrastructure, founded in 1993 by Charles Liang and headquartered in San Jose…
Evidence is still building for Supermicro.
- Tenstorrent#19 leader in HPC & Accelerated ComputeCompare with AMD
Tenstorrent is an AI and RISC-V computing company founded in 2016 in Toronto, Canada, and led by chief executive Jim Keller. It designs AI accelerators based on its Tensix cores…
Evidence is still building for Tenstorrent.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with AMD. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with AMD's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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