What is ‘Fabless Company’
The Global Semiconductor Alliance defines fabless as follows:
Explaining ‘Fabless Company’
The fabless model is an attractive and popular option for many semiconductor companies. By adopting a fabless business strategy, a company can focus time and resources on the design of innovative integrated circuits, while avoiding the high cost of building, operating, and upgrading a manufacturing facility.
Further Reading
- Capability and efficiency of intellectual capital: The case of fabless companies in Taiwan – www.sciencedirect.com [PDF]
- Successful factors of the fabless IC industry in Taiwan – www.inderscienceonline.com [PDF]
- R&D and firm performance in the semiconductor industry – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- Fabless and global [global customized service management] – digital-library.theiet.org [PDF]
- Assessing the performance of a vertically disintegrated chain by the DEA approach–a case study of Taiwanese semiconductor firms – www.tandfonline.com [PDF]
- The vertical disintegration of Taiwan's semiconductor industries: price and non-price factors – www.worldscientific.com [PDF]
- Entry and innovation: an analysis of the fabless semiconductor business – link.springer.com [PDF]
- Ikea's Almost Fabless Global Supply Chain—A Rightsourcing Strategy for Profit, Planet, and People – books.google.com [PDF]
- The genesis of fabless business model: Institutional entrepreneurs in an adaptive ecosystem – link.springer.com [PDF]
