Analyst Karl Freund presents Part 2 of his series on AI chips and the 2019 competitive landscape. : This is the second of three blogs on the state of the AI chip market and what’s to come in 2019. The year will be a festival of new chips and benchmark battles, led by the large companies I mentioned in the first blog ( Intel , Google , AMD , Xilinx , Apple , Qualcomm ), and joined by dozens of Silicon Valley startups and Chinese Unicorns sporting valuations in excess of a billion US dollars.