A category map of the electronics market, built from a multi‑LLM consensus panel. We rank your peer set the way AI ranks it — and show where that picture diverges from OEM, distributor, and buyer‑search vocabularies. Refreshed weekly.
DigiKey is not a manufacturer of microcontrollers. Cadence is not a manufacturer of converters. Octopart is not a manufacturer of resistors. Each archetype gets evaluated against its own peer set, on its own taxonomy.
Where component manufacturers rank against each other in the AI category map.
Where broadline distributors rank against each other — not lumped in with manufacturers.
Where parts aggregators rank against each other in the AI category substrate.
EDA tools ranked against each other on their own native taxonomy.
Each week we ask 17 LLMs to enumerate the brands they associate with each electronics category. Raw responses are preserved with their original phrasing.
A brand enters the rank board for a category when it clears a sustained-consensus threshold: ≥2 of 4 Core vendors × ≥8 weeks × ≥60 saliency. Brands close to the floor are surfaced separately, not silently hidden.
AI’s vocabulary, OEM self-description, buyer search, distributor bucketing, and aggregator taxonomy each embed differently. We publish the pairwise cosine distances so the divergences are visible, not implied.
228 electronics categories with sustained AI coverage this week.
Each one has a public rank board, a substrate funnel that shows what we discarded and why, and a five-vantage view that names where the vocabularies diverge.
Every number on every page is reproducible from a public artifact. Every threshold is named. Every gap is surfaced. The methodology page documents how the substrate is built, what the floor means, and which edge cases we exclude.
Read the methodology →Category rank boards, vocabulary divergence headlines, and the four-audience peer-set views are public. The full vantage matrix, per-brand language fit, and below-floor substrate forensics are paid.