During the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide companies and workers are being instructed to maintain social distancing and minimize physical contact. This had led to a new way of working where workers are working remotely from home (WFH). Due to this abrupt change, people are scrambling to get laptops and PCs to work. As such, the sudden increase in PC sales has led to high chip demand in the semiconductor industry since April 2020.

HP Inc. is a leading global provider of personal computing, imaging & printing products worldwide. The company also provides various business solutions for different industries and retailers.

Nvidia was founded in 1993 by three American computer scientists, Jen-Hsun Huang, Curtis Priem, and Christopher Malachowsky. It is currently headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse-as-a-service designed for the cloud. It allows corporate users to store and analyze data using cloud-based hardware and software.

As of December, 2020, Palantir Technologies platforms is used by 139 customers across 40 industries in more than 150 countries.