Whereas foundries like TSMC and GlobalFoundries provide manufacturing services to fabless companies, which focus on chip design and leave the production to these third-party factories. 12 The investment in a fab is substantial, often running into billions of dollars due to the complex, clean room ...
To this end, he plans to expand the company's COT business with fabless semiconductor vendors and IDM business units. His strategy is simple but focused: X-Fab will offer support and consulting services to IDMs who plan to partially outsource certain manufacturing technologies as well as to ...
The fabless approach is also under pressure. ''As TSMC ramps new technology nodes, it builds out less and less capacity,” said analyst Doug Freedman of American Technology Research. “Too much risk. And when it moves to 40 nm, the problem will become worse. The fabless business model seem...
The above projects will propel wafer fab equipment spending in China to potentially record high annual spending levels in the next two to three years. China will become the largest market for wafer fab equipment, thus representing an important market opportunity for companies providing equipment, mate...