"Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing the fabrication or "fab" of the devices to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. Foundries are typically located in China[1] [2] [3] [4] because of the generally low cost of labor, so fabless companies can benefit from lower capital costs while concentrating their research and development resources on the end market."
he top 5 sales leaders for fabless companies in 2011 were:[8]
| Rank | Company | Country of origin | Revenue (million US$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qualcomm | USA | 9,910 |
| 2 | Broadcom | USA | 7,160 |
| 3 | AMD | USA | 6,568 |
| 4 | Nvidia | USA | 3,939 |
| 5 | Marvell | USA | 3,445 |
Note: Qualcomm has higer martket value than Intel,
and Intel is "vertically integrated" with its own "fabs" for chips,
as well as its own design of x86 based CPU instruction sets (not using ARM).
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