ENTITY · microsoft
MicrosoftMSFT
United States·custom silicon·niche·$2818.3B mkt cap
Designs Maia AI accelerators and Cobalt server CPUs for Azure.
WATCH · 40–69
50/100 illustrative
Underwriting Thesis
WATCH — Microsoft: sole-source / single-point-of-failure dominance compounded by concentrated foreign-origin supply in custom silicon. A chokepoint underwriting concern at this tier.
Factor Breakdown
Foreign-Origin Concentration54
Sole-Source Dependence59
Sanctions Exposure45
Downstream Criticality38
Sanctions Exposure
Entity not present on tracked screening lists (CSL).
DoD Exposure
No matched DoD semiconductor awards (USASpending) for this entity.
Segments
custom siliconhyperscaler
Possible substitutes · same commodity buckets
Chokepoint Relationships
Key Suppliers · upstream · 19
- TSMCTaiwanCHOKEPOINT
- Global Unichip (GUC)TaiwanCHOKEPOINT
- Alphawave SemiUnited KingdomALLIED
- SK hynixSouth KoreaALLIED
- Micron TechnologyUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Applied OptoelectronicsUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Hon Hai (Foxconn)TaiwanCHOKEPOINT
- Quanta ComputerTaiwanCHOKEPOINT
- WiwynnTaiwanCHOKEPOINT
- NVIDIAUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- AMDUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Hewlett Packard EnterpriseUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- CoreWeaveUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Arista NetworksUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Cisco SystemsUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- VertivUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Schneider ElectricFranceALLIED
- ASE TechnologyTaiwanCHOKEPOINT
- BroadcomUnited StatesDOMESTIC
Key Customers · downstream · 1
- OpenAIUnited StatesDOMESTIC