Intel competitors, on the record

Who Intel names

In its own words

1. Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek

   Word for word“We also face significant competition from companies that design processors based on the ARM architecture, such as Apple with its M series products, Qualcomm with its Snapdragon products and MediaTek with its Kompanio products.” 10-K for 2025

2. NVIDIA

   Word for word“Our competitors include companies offering platform products, such as AMD and Qualcomm; accelerator products such as GPUs, including those offered by NVIDIA and AMD; other accelerator products such as ASICs, application-specific standard products and FPGAs; memory and storage products; connectivity and networking products; and other semiconductor products.” 10-K for 2025

3. Samsung

   Word for word“We also compete directly with Samsung in this market.” 10-K for 2025

4. TSMC

   Word for word“Our primary competitor in leading-edge semiconductor process technology is TSMC, which holds a leading position in manufacturing at scale for the most advanced nodes.” 10-K for 2025

5. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD)

   Word for word“In processors, we compete with Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and vendors who design applications processors based on ARM architecture, such as Apple Inc.” 10-K for 2024

6. AMD

   Word for word“Competition CCG's primary competitor is AMD, which like us designs processors based on the x86 architecture.” 10-K for 2025

7. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), Global Foundries

   Word for word“The competitors to Intel Foundry are primarily semiconductor foundries that focus on delivering wafers and packaging technologies from fabrication plants based primarily in Asia, and include TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries, UMC, and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC).” 10-K for 2024

8. UMC, GlobalFoundries, SMIC

   Word for word“Other Intel Foundry competitors include GlobalFoundries, UMC and SMIC, which primarily focus on mature process technologies.” 10-K for 2025

9. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft

   Word for word“Competition DCAI competitors include AMD, which utilizes the x86 architecture and competes with us across the full spectrum of CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and other products; providers of GPU systems such as NVIDIA, whose GPU systems have experienced the highest demand in the market as AI workloads have become the dominant source of compute demand; companies developing their own custom silicon, including many hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft; and both new entrants and incumbents developing ARM- and RISC-V-based products tailored to specific data center and AI workloads.” 10-K for 2025

10. Broadcom

    Word for word“We also compete with Broadcom in the custom ASICs development market.” 10-K for 2025

11. Global Foundries (GF), United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)

    Word for word“Of the five major semiconductor foundries, TSMC, Samsung, Global Foundries (GF), United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), only Samsung is an IDM and foundry, and only GF is headquartered in the US.” 10-K for 2023

Who names Intel

Companies whose own annual reports name Intel as a competitor.

1. IBM · 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

   Word for word“Our principal competitors include: Dell Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, NetApp and Pure Storage as well as original device manufacturers (ODMs) who provide systems that are re-branded.” 10-K for 2025

2. Oracle names it as “Intel Corporation” · 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026

   Word for word“Our enterprise cloud, software and hardware offerings compete directly with certain offerings from some of the largest and most competitive companies in the world, including Adobe Systems Incorporated, Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Intel Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Salesforce, Inc. and SAP SE, as well as other companies like Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Workday, Inc.” 10-K for 2026

3. Nvidia names it as “Intel Corporation” · 2023, 2025, 2026

   Word for word“suppliers and licensors of hardware and software for discrete and integrated GPUs, custom chips and other accelerated computing solutions, including solutions offered for AI, such as Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., or AMD, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., or Huawei, and Intel Corporation, or Intel;” 10-K for 2026

4. AMD names it as “Intel Corporation” · 2025

   Word for word“In the Data Center segment, we compete primarily against Intel Corporation (Intel) and Nvidia Corporation (Nvidia with our CPU, GPU DPU and AI NIC server products.” 10-K for 2025

5. Broadcom Cayman names it as “Intel Corp.” · 2017

   Word for word“Our primary competitors in the wired infrastructure segment are Cavium Inc., Intel Corp., Finisar Corp., GlobalFoundries, HiSilicon Technologies Co. Ltd., Lumentum Operations LLC, MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., Marvell Corp., Mediatek Inc., Mellanox Technologies, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NXP Semiconductors N.V., Quantenna Inc., ST Microelectronics N.V., and Sumitomo Corporation.” 10-K for 2017

6. Broadcom Pte. names it as “Intel Corp.” · 2017

   Word for word“Our primary competitors in the wired infrastructure segment are Cavium Inc., Intel Corp., Finisar Corp., GlobalFoundries, HiSilicon Technologies Co. Ltd., Lumentum Operations LLC, MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc., Marvell Corp., Mediatek Inc., Mellanox Technologies, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, NXP Semiconductors N.V., Quantenna Inc., ST Microelectronics N.V., and Sumitomo Corporation.” 10-K for 2017

7. Globalfoundries · 2025

   Word for word“TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Texas Instruments and others have commenced construction or initiated plans to develop new fabs and substantially increase their manufacturing capacity in the United States, and other competitors may seek to do likewise.” 20-F for 2025

8. IonQ · 2025

   Word for word“Our current competitors include (among others): • large, well-established technology companies that generally compete in all of our markets, including Amazon, Google, IBM, Intel and Microsoft; • countries such as China, Russia, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and certain countries in the European Union; • less-established public and private companies with competing technology, including companies located outside the United States; and • new or emerging entrants seeking to develop competing technologies.” 10-K for 2025

9. Marvell Technology Group names it as “Intel Corporation” · 2021

   Word for word“Our major competitors for our products include Broadcom Limited, Intel Corporation, Microchip Technology Inc., NXP Semiconductors N.V., Phison Electronics Corporation, Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Silicon Motion Technology Corporation and Socionext Inc.” 10-K for 2021

10. Mellanox Technologies names it as “Intel Corporation” · 2019

    Word for word“With respect to InfiniBand products, we compete with Intel Corporation's proprietary Omni-Path interconnect, Cray’s (a HPE company) SlingShot interconnect, as well as high-performance Ethernet interconnects offered by many competitors.” 10-K for 2019

11. Xilinx names it as “Intel Corporation” · 2021

    Word for word“We expect continued competition from our primary PLD competitors such as Intel Corporation (Intel), Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (Lattice) and Microsemi Corporation (Microsemi, acquired by Microchip), and from ASSP vendors such as Broadcom Corporation (Broadcom), Marvell Technology Group, Ltd. (Marvell), Analog Devices and Texas Instruments Incorporated (Texas Instruments), as well as from companies such as NVIDIA with whom we historically have not competed.” 10-K for 2021

Read from Intel’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-01-23. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.