D-Wave competitors

Zippia score 4.3

D-Wave main competitors are Teradici, Synaptics, and Xilinx.

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IBM has the most employees (270,000).
Employees at Teradici earn more than most of the competitors, with an average yearly salary of $122,931.
The oldest company is IBM, founded in 1911.

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D-Wave vs competitors

Company	Founding date	Zippia score	Headquarters	# of Locations	Revenue	Employees
D-Wave	1999	4.3	-	-	$7.2M	161
Texas Instruments	1930	4.6	Dallas, TX	15	$15.6B	29,888
Synaptics	1986	4.8	San Jose, CA	4	$959.4M	1,463
Synopsys	1986	4.4	Mountain View, CA	8	$6.1B	15,001
National Semiconductor	1959	4.6	Santa Clara, CA	1	$1.4B	5,800
Teradici	2004	4.2	Santa Clara, CA	1	$19.9M	200
Cadence Design Systems	1988	4.7	San Jose, CA	6	$4.6B	8,900
IBM	1911	4.7	Armonk, NY	71	$62.8B	270,000
Xilinx	1984	4.8	San Jose, CA	3	$3.1B	4,891
Intel	1968	4.7	Santa Clara, CA	17	$53.1B	121,100
MathWorks	1984	4.8	Natick, MA	6	$1.1B	5,000
Ansys	1970	4.7	Canonsburg, PA	50	-	5,000

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D-Wave salaries vs competitors

Among D-Wave competitors, employees at Teradici earn the most with an average yearly salary of $122,931.

Compare D-Wave salaries vs competitors

Company	Average salary	Hourly salary	Salary score
D-Wave	$103,484	$49.75	-
Texas Instruments	$100,326	$48.23	-
Synaptics	$122,899	$59.09	-
Synopsys	$107,586	$51.72	-
National Semiconductor	$94,043	$45.21	-
Teradici	$122,931	$59.10	-

Compare D-Wave job title salaries vs competitors

Company	Highest salary	Hourly salary
D-Wave	$117,978	$56.72
Xilinx	$127,700	$61.39
Texas Instruments	$126,845	$60.98
Synaptics	$122,710	$59.00
National Semiconductor	$116,004	$55.77
Cadence Design Systems	$114,753	$55.17
Teradici	$111,985	$53.84
Synopsys	$108,999	$52.40
MathWorks	$108,066	$51.95
Intel	$104,737	$50.35
Ansys	$93,871	$45.13
IBM	$83,883	$40.33

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D-Wave demographics vs competitors

Compare gender at D-Wave vs competitors

Job title	Male	Female
Cadence Design Systems	63%	37%
IBM	68%	32%
Ansys	69%	31%
Synaptics	71%	29%
Intel	73%	27%
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Company	White	Hispanic or Latino	Black or African American	Asian	Unknown	Diversity score
Ansys	50%	11%	7%	27%	5%	9.6
Cadence Design Systems	54%	14%	8%	19%	5%	9.8
Intel	52%	18%	6%	19%	6%	9.8
IBM	55%	13%	11%	16%	5%	9.9
Synaptics	33%	15%	5%	41%	6%	9.5
Synopsys	43%	15%	6%	30%	6%	9.7

D-Wave and similar companies CEOs

CEOBio

Ajei S. Gopal

Ansys

Tan Lip-Bu

Cadence Design Systems

Lip-Bu Tan (born November 12, 1959) is a Malaysian-born American executive and entrepreneur presently the CEO of Cadence Design Systems and Chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm.

Patrick P. Gelsinger

Intel

Patrick Paul Gelsinger (born 1961) is an American business executive and engineer, currently serving as CEO of Intel.

Arvind Krishna

IBM

Arvind Krishna (born 1962) is an Indian-American business executive serving as Chairman and CEO of IBM. He has been the CEO of IBM since April 2020 and took on the role of Chairman & CEO in January 2021. Krishna began his career at IBM in 1990, at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2015, managing IBM Cloud & Cognitive Software and IBM Research divisions. He was a principal architect of the acquisition of Red Hat, the largest acquisition in the Company’s history.

Aart J. de Geus

Synopsys

Aart J. de Geus is a co-founder of Synopsys, Inc., a provider of electronic design automation software and related services for semiconductor design companies, and currently serves as its Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co-Chief Executive Officer. Since 1986, Dr. de Geus has held various positions at Synopsys, including President, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Senior Vice President of Marketing, and has served as a member of its board of directors. From 1982 to 1986, Dr. de Geus was employed by the General Electric Company, a global infrastructure, finance and media company, where he was the Manager of the Advanced Computer-Aided Engineering Group. Dr. de Geus joined the Applied Materials board of directors in 2007.

Richard K. Templeton

Texas Instruments

Richard K. Templeton is an American electrical engineer and business executive. He is chairman and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments.

Victor Peng

Xilinx

Victor Peng (born 1960) is a Taiwanese-American technology executive and CEO of Xilinx, an American technology company that supplies programmable logic devices.

Gil Amelio

National Semiconductor

Jack Little

MathWorks

John N. "Jack" Little is an American electrical engineer and the president and co-founder of MathWorks and a co-author of early versions of the company's MATLAB product.

Dan Cordingley

Teradici

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Updated December 12, 2025