• Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or fab) to a specialized...
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  • (IDMs) design and manufacture integrated circuits. Many companies, known as fabless semiconductor companies, only design devices; merchant or pure play foundries...
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  • company which handles semiconductor manufacturing in-house, compared to a fabless semiconductor company, which outsources production to a third-party semiconductor...
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    Nvidia (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It is a software and fabless company which designs and supplies graphics processing units (GPUs), application...
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    Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), sometimes informally abbreviated as MTK, is a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that designs and manufactures a range of semiconductor...
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    The Netherlands. In 2019, Qorvo acquired Active-Semi International, a fabless company with expertise in power efficiency and power management, which...
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  • manufacture designs from design-only (fabless firms), or by pure play foundries who manufacture designs from fabless companies and do not design their own...
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  • companies, from integrated device manufacturers to pure-play foundries, fabless semiconductor companies and OSAT companies. Integrated device manufacturers...
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    Qualcomm (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    Qualcomm has expanded into selling semiconductor products in a predominantly fabless manufacturing model. It also developed semiconductor components or software...
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  • (integrated device manufacturers) – They may or may not offer foundry services. Fabless suppliers – They do not offer foundry services. They may or may not offer...
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    2004: Received the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award from the Fabless Semiconductor Association, which recognizes a leader who has made exceptional...
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    that farmed out manufacturing of their designs to foundries were termed fabless semiconductor companies. Those foundries, which did not create their own...
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    Ageia (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    Ageia, founded in 2002, was a fabless semiconductor company. In 2004, Ageia acquired NovodeX, the company who created PhysX – a Physics Processing Unit...
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    Ambarella, Inc. is an American fabless semiconductor design company, focusing on low-power, high-definition (HD) and Ultra HD video compression, image...
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    services to other companies (the latter often to fabless companies). In the foundry model, fabless companies (like Nvidia) only design and sell ICs and...
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    Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired...
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    17.4% in revenue and a CAGR of 16.1% in earnings. Most of the leading fabless semiconductor companies such as AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek...
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  • Xilinx together with Ross Freeman in 1984. With Xilinx, he pioneered the fabless business model which is now used by a large number of semiconductor companies...
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    SiFive (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    SiFive, Inc. is an American fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processors and silicon chips based on the RISC-V instruction...
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  • UNISOC (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    (Chinese: 展讯通信有限公司; pinyin: Zhǎnxùn Tōngxìn Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī), is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Shanghai which produces chipsets...
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    CSR plc (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    CSR plc (formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio) was a multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Its main products...
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    systems, barcode readers, laser markers and digital microscopes. Keyence is fabless — although it is a manufacturer; it specializes solely in product planning...
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    at full speed (i.e., without the need to simulate an 8080 by software). Fabless companies designed the chip and contracted another company to manufacture...
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    THine Electronics (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    THine Electronics Incorporated is a Japanese fabless LSI manufacturer that provides mixed signal LSIs and analog technologies, headquartered in Tokyo...
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    Arm Holdings (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    Arm Holdings plc (formerly an acronym for Advanced RISC Machines and originally Acorn RISC Machine) is a British semiconductor and software design company...
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    MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. and MIPS Technologies, Inc., is an American fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the...
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    world, while MediaTek is the fourth-largest fabless supplier globally. In 1987, TSMC pioneered the fabless foundry model, reshaping the global semiconductor...
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    (November 12, 2009). "AMD and Intel Settle Their Differences: AMD Gets To Go Fabless". AnandTech. Archived from the original on May 13, 2010. AMD Developer...
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    He made an estimated $240 million on the acquisition. Mellanox was a fabless semiconductor company, which then sold products based on those semiconductor...
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  • Alchip (category Fabless semiconductor companies)
    Alchip is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Alchip specializes in the design and manufacture of digital...
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