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- adjective Of or pertaining to a
company that does not make its ownsilicon wafers and primarily concerns itself withresearch anddesign .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is a tough business, the so-called fabless chipmaking for analog ICs, which allows optimizing of such settings as brightness and power efficiency they are distinct from digital microprocessors which handle on/off commands.
'White-Haired Devil' Joyce Huang 2010
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This is a tough business, the so-called fabless chipmaking for analog ICs, which allows optimizing of such settings as brightness and power efficiency they are distinct from digital microprocessors which handle on/off commands.
'White-Haired Devil' Joyce Huang 2010
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It will operate a so-called fabless venture, relying on other companies to manufacture the microchips it designs.
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Telegent designs and markets its chips but is a so-called fabless semiconductor maker, or one that doesn't have its own manufacturing facility to fabricate chips.
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It is the world's largest "fabless" chip maker, meaning it designs its chips but outsources their manufacturing to others.
Qualcomm In India 2010
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It is the world's largest "fabless" chip maker, meaning it designs its chips but outsources their manufacturing to others.
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A "fabless" company, it designs chips for its customers yet outsources the manufacturing.
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A "fabless" company, it designs chips for its customers yet outsources the manufacturing.
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It is the world's largest "fabless" chip maker, meaning it designs its chips but outsources their manufacturing to others.
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TSMC created two new models for technology: independent chip makers and "fabless" design houses, each of which could better withstand the brutal cycles of the industry.
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The foundry model allows for further specialisation in microchip manufacturing: with access to a good foundry, chip designers can go ‘fabless’, outsourcing the actual making of the chips to a single plant.
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qroqqa commented on the word fabless
Of a semiconductor design business: doing only the design, and lacking the industrial facilities ('fabs') to fabricate the product. See more at Quinion.
May 13, 2009
dontcry commented on the word fabless
Ohhhh! I love this word! I'm going to use it to describe anything and everything that isn't fabulous!
May 13, 2009