SAN JOSE — A little-known company, called Alpha Technologies Inc., here has surfaced and announced plans to expand what could be considered an unusual business model for semiconductors: the “fabless ...

As fabless MEMS manufacturers start to penetrate higher-volume markets Valerie Thompson takes a look at how the fabless model is evolving. Most important, such a business model has yet to prove itself ...

As an emerging economy, India is becoming increasingly well-known for its startups. Even before the Indian government began to doll out incentives to encourage local semiconductor manufacturing, ...

Samsung Electronics’ foundry business is widening its customer base by expanding collaboration not only with big tech corporations such as Tesla, but also with small and midsize fabless firms in the ...

South Korea's government is considering a $3.1 billion foundry investment to strengthen its semiconductor sector, focusing on memory chips and domestic production of defense-related semiconductors.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kwak Min-jae] The Ministry of SMEs and Startups and Samsung Electronics have stepped up to support promising fabless companies (design-specialized firms) that find it difficult ...

Customers do not fancy handing a rival their crown jewels. Troubled Chipzilla’s foundry push is tripping over the awkward ...

A newly released plan for the domestic semiconductor sector eyes the setup of a mutually beneficial foundry under the goal of maintaining the super gap in the country's dominance in semiconductor ...

ARM Ltd. will add one of its most frequently licensed processor cores to its Foundry Program for fabless chip companies, so those companies can develop products using ARM cores without the upfront ...

The chip company is not going fabless in the classic sense of the word: a design house without any manufacturing facilities. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, ...

SEOUL: South Korea is considering building a 4.5 trillion won (US$3.06 billion) foundry to make essential chips, funded by state and private investment, part of efforts to gain an edge in a race to ...