Which companies discussed AI Inference Demand in Information Technology in earnings calls?
290 companies mentioned ai inference demand across 733 earnings calls in Information Technology over the past year, spanning 1 sectors. The most active were Sandisk Corporation (15 calls), Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (15 calls), Arista Networks, Inc. (14 calls). The table below ranks every company by how often the theme came up, with direct links to each transcript.
Mentions over time
Data table
| Quarter | Calls mentioning AI Inference Demand |
|---|---|
| 2024Q4 | 92 |
| 2025Q1 | 154 |
| 2025Q2 | 103 |
| 2025Q3 | 110 |
| 2025Q4 | 135 |
| 2026Q1 | 158 |
| 2026Q2 | 213 |
| 2026Q3 | 202 |
| 2026Q4 | 46 |
Companies ranked by mentions
| Company | Ticker | Sector | Calls | Last mention |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandisk Corporation | SNDK | Information Technology | 15 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. | AMD | Information Technology | 15 | Sep 11, 2026 |
| Arista Networks, Inc. | ANET | Information Technology | 14 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| NVIDIA Corporation | NVDA | Information Technology | 12 | Aug 26, 2026 |
| DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | DOCN | Information Technology | 11 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| Intel Corporation | INTC | Information Technology | 10 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Akamai Technologies, Inc. | AKAM | Information Technology | 10 | Sep 24, 2026 |
| Datadog, Inc. | DDOG | Information Technology | 10 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| CoreWeave, Inc. | CRWV | Information Technology | 10 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| QUALCOMM Incorporated | QCOM | Information Technology | 10 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| Western Digital Corporation | WDC | Information Technology | 9 | Oct 22, 2026 |
| F5, Inc. | FFIV | Information Technology | 8 | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Astera Labs, Inc. | ALAB | Information Technology | 8 | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Silicon Motion Technology Corporation | SIMO | Information Technology | 7 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation | CTSH | Information Technology | 7 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company | HPE | Information Technology | 7 | Sep 30, 2026 |
| Ambarella, Inc. | AMBA | Information Technology | 7 | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Cloudflare, Inc. | NET | Information Technology | 7 | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Dell Technologies Inc. | DELL | Information Technology | 7 | Sep 1, 2026 |
| DustPhotonics Ltd | CRDO | Information Technology | 7 | Sep 1, 2026 |
| Seagate Technology Holdings plc | STX | Information Technology | 6 | Oct 27, 2026 |
| Micron Technology, Inc. | MU | Information Technology | 6 | Oct 21, 2026 |
| Weebit Nano Limited | WBT | Information Technology | 6 | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Marvell Technology, Inc. | MRVL | Information Technology | 6 | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Fastly, Inc. | FSLY | Information Technology | 6 | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Nebius Group N.V. | NBIS | Information Technology | 6 | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Zeta Global Holdings Corp. | ZETA | Information Technology | 6 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| NetApp, Inc. | NTAP | Information Technology | 6 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| Elastic N.V. | ESTC | Information Technology | 6 | Aug 27, 2026 |
| Silicom Ltd. | SILC | Information Technology | 5 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Rambus Inc. | RMBS | Information Technology | 5 | Oct 26, 2026 |
| E2E Networks Limited | E2E | Information Technology | 5 | Oct 16, 2026 |
| Penguin Solutions, Inc. | PENG | Information Technology | 5 | Oct 6, 2026 |
| MongoDB, Inc. | MDB | Information Technology | 5 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| MARA Holdings, Inc. | MARA | Information Technology | 5 | Sep 14, 2026 |
| Autodesk, Inc. | ADSK | Information Technology | 5 | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Broadcom Inc. | AVGO | Information Technology | 5 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. | GFS | Information Technology | 5 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| Arm Holdings plc | ARM | Information Technology | 5 | Jul 29, 2026 |
| Microsoft Corporation | MSFT | Information Technology | 5 | Jul 29, 2026 |
| Lumentum Holdings Inc. | LITE | Information Technology | 5 | Jun 9, 2026 |
| SK hynix Inc. | A000660 | Information Technology | 4 | Oct 28, 2026 |
| Teradyne, Inc. | TER | Information Technology | 4 | Oct 28, 2026 |
| HubSpot, Inc. | HUBS | Information Technology | 4 | Sep 17, 2026 |
| Lam Research Corporation | LRCX | Information Technology | 4 | Sep 10, 2026 |
| Okta, Inc. | OKTA | Information Technology | 4 | Sep 9, 2026 |
| Wix.com Ltd. | WIX | Information Technology | 4 | Sep 8, 2026 |
| Ciena Corporation | CIEN | Information Technology | 4 | Sep 3, 2026 |
| CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. | CRWD | Information Technology | 4 | Sep 2, 2026 |
| IREN Limited | IREN | Information Technology | 4 | Aug 27, 2026 |
Representative quotes
…infrastructure. Diamond Rapids, our first Intel 18A-P server product is sampling and on track to ramp in 2027, with strong interest for inference and agentic workloads. We were pleased to recently announce an agreement with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to deploy our latest generation CPUs to support their…
Mark, if I could ask a quick follow-up to an earlier question on the gross margin headwinds. Is that still predominantly inference costs? Or is there still like WM migration or product mix pressuring there? And how does that I guess, alleviate itself and when is there…
…just, number one, I wanted to ask about the why. And two, you highlighted that they're more competitive. And so should we infer from that comment that pricing -- price competition is likewise increasing, which is perhaps impacting revenue growth and the bookings as well? Robert Del Bene…
…first HBF memory die with fabrication now underway. As we outlined at Investor Day, HBF is a new memory architecture for inference that targets HBM class read bandwidth with substantially greater capacity to support larger models, longer context lengths and growing KV caches. It is designed to complement…
Frequently asked questions
What is AI Inference Demand and why are companies discussing it?
The compute spend that follows AI deployment — distinct from training. Critical for chips, networking and cloud economics.
Which company mentioned ai inference demand most in Information Technology in the past year?
Sandisk Corporation (SNDK) led with 15 calls referencing ai inference demand, most recently on October 29, 2026.
How can I track ai inference demand mentions across earnings calls via API?
The EarningsCalls.dev REST API exposes the same data behind this page. Use the search_transcripts and count_mentions_by_ticker endpoints to query our archive of 33,000+ earnings call transcripts — keyword search, sector / date filters, per-company mention counts, and the underlying full transcripts. See the API docs →
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Last updated: October 30, 2026. Methodology: full-text search across all earnings call transcripts in our corpus over the past 12 months, matching the canonical term and its aliases (inference, inference). Mentions are per call, not per occurrence within a call; the company-rank table is built by counting distinct calls mentioning the theme. Page refreshes every hour at the edge as new calls land in our archive.