Below is a summary of the major Zigbee silicon vendors, and the companies that make modules using their chips. There are others, but these are the majors. If you notice major missing items or errors, please let me know here.
Some of the module makers only offer legacy Zigbee products, having migrated primarily to BLE, although much of this is marketing, as many of the products will happily run Zigbee apps.
There are many many domestic Chinese module makes that are not listed here, mostly BLE/WiFi focussed.
Zigbee silicon vendors
Vendor | ISA | Stack / Lang | IDE | |
Broadcom | ARM | Who knows, Broadcom are a “contact sales and tell us your annual volume” type of co. | Larger SoCs with 802.15.4 support, no dedicated products | |
Espressif | Extensa, RISC-V | ESP Zigbee SDK (ZBOSS) / C | Espressif-IDE (Eclipse), VSCode plugin | |
Infineon | ARM | ModusToolbox | ||
Microchip | ARM | BitCloud SDK / C | MPLAB X | |
Nordic Semi. | ARM | nRF Connect / C | nRF Connect (VS Code) | |
NXP | ARM | Zigbee 3.0 SDK / C | MCUXpresso (Eclipse / VSCode) | |
Qorvo | ARM | |||
Qualcomm | ARM / RISC-V | As with Broadcom, contact sales for further info ;-) | CodeLinaro (VSCode) | Larger SoCs with 802.15.4 support, no dedicated products |
Realtek | ARM | |||
Silicon Labs | ARM | EmberZNet PRO / C | Simplicity Studio (Eclipse / VSCode) | Seems to be most popular vendor |
ST Micro. | ARM | STM32CubeWBA / C | STM32Cube (Eclipse), basic VSCode editing | |
Telink | Proprietary / RISC-V | Telink Zigbee SDK / C | Telink IoT Studio (Eclipse) | |
Texas Instruments | ARM | TI Z-Stack / C | CCS (Eclipse), CCS Theia (VSCode) | Supplying Zigbee SoCs since their purchase of Chipcon in 2006 |
Broadcom - Don’t publish much information on their offerings aside from headline features. Only deal with very large customers.
Infineon* - Despite buying Cypress for EUR9 billion in 2019 - who bought Broadcom’s wireless IoT business (WiFi/Bluetooth/Zigbee) for $550 million in 2016 - Infineon seem to only offer WiFi/Bluetooth solutions these days.
Microchip - To get access to BitCloud SDK, documents and reference application, the customer must contact Microchip’s local sales office or an Embedded Solutions Engineer (FAE) and submit a NSCAR (Non-Standard Customer Action Request). NSCAR may request customer information and project details
onsemi - Had some solutions, but seem to have discontinued. More focussed on ultra low-power BLE.
Zigbee module makers
Nordic and Silicon Devices are clearly most popular
STM | TI | M’chip | ESP | Qual. | Nordic | SiLabs | Infin. | NXP | R’tek | Telink | Qorvo | |
ST Micro. | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Texas Instruments | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Microchip | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Espressif (ESP) | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Qualcomm | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
EZurio | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
Rayson | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - |
AzureWave | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |
CEL | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - |
Digi (XBee) | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |
Ebyte | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | - | ✓ | - |
EZurio | - | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - |
HOPERF | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |
Insight SIP | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - |
MikroElektronika | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |
MinewSemi | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Mokosmart | - | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Raytac | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Radiocontrolli | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
RF Star | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |
Skylab | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuya | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | ✓ | - |
u-blox | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - |
Leederason | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | ✓ |
Feasycom | - | - | - | - | - | - | ✓ | - | - | - | - | - |