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Integrated device manufacturer
Company that designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit products
Company that designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit products
An integrated device manufacturer (IDM) is a semiconductor company which designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit (IC) products.
IDM is often used to refer to a company which handles semiconductor manufacturing in-house, compared to a fabless semiconductor company, which outsources production to a third-party semiconductor fabrication plant.
Examples of IDMs are Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Infineon and STMicroelectronics. Fabless companies include AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Zhaoxin, and examples of pure play foundries are GlobalFoundries, TSMC, and UMC.
Due to the dynamic nature of the semiconductor industry, the term IDM has become less accurate than when it was coined.
OSATs
The term OSATs means "outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers". OSATs have dominated IC packaging and testing.
Fabless operations
Main article: Fabless manufacturing
The terms fabless (fabrication-less), foundry, and IDM are now used to describe the role a company has in a business relationship. For example, Freescale owns and operates fabrication facilities (fab) where it manufactures many chip product lines, as a traditional IDM would. Yet it is known to contract with merchant foundries for other products, as would fabless companies.
Manufacturers
Many electronic manufacturing companies engage in business that would qualify them as an IDM:
- Analog Devices (and previously Maxim Integrated Products)
- ams AG
- Changxin Memory Technologies
- CR Microelectronics
- Fujitsu
- Good-Ark Electronics
- Hitachi
- IBM (was integrated, up to 2015, then fabless)
- Infineon (and previously Cypress Semiconductor)
- Intersil (now subsidiary of Renesas)
- Intel
- LSI Corporation (acquired, not part of fabless Broadcom)
- Matsushita
- MACOM
- Microchip Technology
- Micron Technology (and previously IM Flash Technologies)
- Mitsubishi
- National Semiconductor (became part of Texas Instruments)
- Nexperia
- NXP (formerly Philips + Freescale Semiconductors)
- OMMIC (Acquired by MACOM)
- ON Semiconductor
- Qorvo
- Renesas (formerly NEC semiconductor)
- Samsung
- Shanghai Belling
- SK Hynix
- STMicroelectronics
- Sony
- Texas Instruments
- Tsinghua Unigroup
- Toshiba
- Yangtze Memory Technologies
Reading
- Understanding fabless IC technology By Jeorge S. Hurtarte, Evert A. Wolsheimer, Lisa M. Tafoya 1.4.1 Integrated device manufacturer Page 8
References
References
- http://semiengineering.com/tag/osats/ outsourced semiconductor assembly and test providers (OSATs)
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