Hardware Network Acceleration

Utilizing specialized hardware components such as network processing units (NPUs) or dedicated acceleration circuits to offload and speed up network packet processing, traffic generation, or time-sensitive network operations.

6,444 US filings from 751 companies since 2023 · 2023: 1,804 · 2024: 1,952 · 2025: 1,848 · 2026 YTD: 840

Network Management & Monitoring

Top companies

Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.

#	Company	Since 2023	2023	2024	2025	2026 YTD	YoY
1	INTEL CORPORATION	362	121	103	102	36	-1.0%
2	Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	343	128	104	80	31	-23.1%
3	Cisco Technology, Inc.	243	58	74	78	33	+5.4%
4	Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.	225	46	65	80	34	+23.1%
5	BRIGHT DATA LTD.	184	47	71	42	24	-40.8%
6	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP	183	35	55	62	31	+12.7%
7	Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC	179	43	48	58	30	+20.8%
8	SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.	169	47	49	50	23	+2.0%
9	Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)	160	45	54	39	22	-27.8%
10	Arista Networks, Inc.	139	32	39	43	25	+10.3%
11	Juniper Networks, Inc.	138	46	49	34	9	-30.6%
12	GOOGLE LLC	119	34	39	38	8	-2.6%
13	International Business Machines Corporation	101	38	34	18	11	-47.1%
14	VMware, Inc.	99	75	19	5	·	-73.7%
15	DELL PRODUCTS L.P.	97	18	20	31	28	+55.0%
16	Amazon Technologies, Inc.	95	31	28	24	12	-14.3%
17	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation	92	35	37	19	1	-48.6%
18	VMware LLC	90	·	35	46	9	+31.4%
19	Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.	80	15	20	27	18	+35.0%
20	XILINX, INC.	78	22	23	21	12	-8.7%
21	Apple Inc.	77	14	26	25	12	-3.8%
22	Oracle International Corporation	74	16	25	24	9	-4.0%
23	Nvidia Corporation	72	10	20	27	15	+35.0%
24	Nokia Technologies Oy	67	11	27	18	11	-33.3%
25	Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy	62	16	22	16	8	-27.3%