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CLASSIFICATION As a classification, IDM is often used to differentiate between a company which handles Semiconductor Manufacturing in-house, and a Fabless company which outsources production to a third-party. Due to the dynamic nature of the semiconductor industry, the term IDM has become less accurate than when it was coined. FABLESS OPERATIONS The terms fabless, Foundry , and IDM are now used to describe the role a company has in a business relationship. For example, LSI Logic and Motorola each own and operate fabs where they manufacture many chip product lines, as a traditional IDM would. Yet both are known to contract with merchant foundries for other products, as would 'fabless' companies. Many technology manufacturing companies engage in business that would qualify them as an IDM: including but not limited to Hitachi , IBM , Intel , LSI Logic , Matsushita , Mitsubishi , Freescale , NEC , Philips , Samsung , Infineon , Sony , Texas Instruments , and Toshiba . |
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