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This is a list of semiconductor fabrication plants, factories where integrated circuits (ICs), also known as microchips, are manufactured.They are either operated by Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) that design and manufacture ICs in-house and may also manufacture designs from design-only (fabless firms), or by pure play foundries that manufacture designs from fabless companies and do ...
Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or fab) to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclusively, located in the United States , mainland China , and Taiwan .
The fabless company concentrates on the research and development of an IC-product; the foundry concentrates on manufacturing and testing the physical product. If the foundry does not have any semiconductor design capability, it is a pure-play semiconductor foundry. An absolute separation into fabless and foundry companies is not necessary.
An integrated device manufacturer (IDM) is a semiconductor company which designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit (IC) products.. IDM is often used to refer to a company which handles semiconductor manufacturing in-house, compared to a fabless semiconductor company, which outsources production to a third-party semiconductor fabrication plant.
Semiconductor fabrication requires many expensive devices. Estimates put the cost of building a new fab at over one billion U.S. dollars with values as high as $3–4 billion not being uncommon. For example, TSMC invested $9.3 billion in its Fab15 in Taiwan. [2] The same company estimations suggest that their future fab might cost $20 billion. [3]
Ambarella A2-A1-RH, used in a camcorder. Ambarella, Inc. is an American fabless semiconductor design company, [1] focusing on low-power, high-definition and Ultra HD video compression, image processing, and computer vision processors. [2]
Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired by Avago Technologies for $37 billion in 2016 and currently [update] operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged entity Broadcom Inc.
When SiBeam was active the company focused on products using the 60Ghz-Range, including the low-range "Snap" family used in wireless connectors which were thought to be able to replace USB ports, [19] chips transmitting video data to enable wireless monitors, [20] as well as modules supporting transmission ranges up to 300m, like the 2017 launched MOD65412. [21]