ENTITY · openai
OpenAI
United States·ai lab·leader
Leading AI lab (ChatGPT); designing custom inference silicon with Broadcom.
WATCH · 40–69
40/100 illustrative
Underwriting Thesis
WATCH — OpenAI: concentrated foreign-origin supply compounded by sole-source / single-point-of-failure dominance in ai lab. A chokepoint underwriting concern at this tier.
Factor Breakdown
Foreign-Origin Concentration51
Sole-Source Dependence51
Sanctions Exposure45
Downstream Criticality5
Sanctions Exposure
Entity not present on tracked screening lists (CSL).
DoD Exposure
No matched DoD semiconductor awards (USASpending) for this entity.
Segments
ai labcustom silicon
Possible substitutes · same commodity buckets
Chokepoint Relationships
Key Suppliers · upstream · 9
- NVIDIAUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- BroadcomUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- CoreWeaveUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Crusoe EnergyUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- OracleUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- Nebius GroupNetherlandsALLIED
- MicrosoftUnited StatesDOMESTIC
- TSMCTaiwanCHOKEPOINT
- ASE TechnologyTaiwanCHOKEPOINT
Key Customers · downstream · 0
No mapped downstream customers.