US-based international market survey agency Compass Intelligence LLC recently released its list of the top 15 artificial intelligence (AI) chip makers, among whom the US NVIDIA Corp. ranked first, while Shenzhen-based HiSilicon Technologies Co., a unit of communications giant Huawei Technologies Co., ranked 12th, the highest among Chinese companies. The list showed the US Intel Corp. and the Netherlands NXP Semiconductors NV ranking second and third. America's IBM Corp., Google Inc. of Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc. ranked fourth, sixth and eighth, respectively. Compass Intelligence compiled the list of software and hardware companies which produce artificial intelligence chipsets. Products evaluated included central processors, image processors, neural network processors and application-specific integrated circuits, all of which it comprehensively graded and ranked in accordance with market indexes, supplier tracing analyses and company statistics.