Integrated device manufacturer
Company that designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit products / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An integrated device manufacturer (IDM) is a semiconductor company which designs, manufactures, and sells integrated circuit (IC) products.
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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, and Texas Instruments, examples of fabless companies are AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, 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.