Fabless Semiconductor companies: is intellectual property reuse creating a new model?
Ron Wilson , EDN
Dec 20 2006
Over the last few months several people have suggested that a new business model is emerging for fabless semiconductor companies. (See, for instance, this article on Qualcomm or the comments at the very end of this one.) The subject came up again yesterday in an interview with design services and IP provider S3 (whose site is here.)
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