Over the past year 2024, the rise of AI has increased the value of many hardware companies, with NVIDIA undoubtedly benefiting the most. However, there are many competitors in this industry, and while most of them probably seem safe, you will be surprised when you discover their value. In this article we explain everything to you in depth.
Many of us know that companies like NVIDIA, Intel, IBM, Microsoft or AMD are extremely valuable, but almost none of us have any idea how much. Fortunately, there are those who are dedicated to obtaining this type of statistics and thus being able to empirically measure the value of a company, so we will get to the heart of the matter by focusing on companies that are dedicated to this material.
The Most Valuable Hardware Companies in the World
As we predicted before, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the rise of AI is NVIDIA, and in fact, by 2024 it has become the most valuable company in the world ahead of giants like Google, Apple or Amazon. Its capital is huge, but it has dozens of competitors, some of which are relatively close, so let's see it in the form of a graph courtesy of CompaniesMarketCap, with data extracted precisely from the market capitalization of each of them. This data was taken as of December 30, 2024.
Indeed, Nvidia It is the most valuable company with a capitalization of $3.4 trillion, followed by Broadcom with $1.1 trillion and TSMC with $1 trillion. I don't know about you, but whoever signed this article was surprised to see Broadcom so high, in second place, don't you think?
In comparison, other “giants” of the industry like Samsung, AMD or Intel are far behind with 240 billion, 199 billion and 85 billion respectively. It is surprising that at present Intel's capitalization is less than half that of AMD given the situation that the two companies knew before the arrival of Lisa Su at the head of AMD… and now we understands a lot when they tell us about Intel's investment. financial problems. Not because 85 billion is little or much less, but because we thought (personally) that they were much higher.
And companies like ARM, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Micron, Marvell or ASML are well above the blue silicon giant, and even much less known names like Analog Devices, Lam Research or Applied Materials have a capitalization well above .
What is more than clear is the distribution of hardware company value by country: the United States takes the cake, followed by Taiwan. South Korea also has a big piece of the pie, as does the Netherlands thanks to ASML. The United Kingdom thanks to ARM also has a small share, larger than China with SMIC and other small manufacturers. Japan, Germany and the rest of the world actually rank ahead of China.
Regardless, looking at this chart, everyone can draw their own conclusions. The truth is that we were personally more than surprised when we saw these numbers, because at first we did not think that NVIDIA would have such an advantage over the others, nor did we expect to see Intel or even Samsung so far in below. What do you think?
