Until recently, manufacturing semiconductors was the domain of dedicated chip companies. However, over the past fifteen years or so, technology giants – led by the likes of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta – have established in-house silicon design teams and taken advantage of contract fabrication facilities to produce chips tailored to their requirements. What’s more, the appeal of the so-called “fabless” semiconductor business model is growing fast. Adoption is spreading not just in the tech domain, but to verticals such as the automotive industry. OEMs like Tesla, GM, and Ford have all embarked on designing and manufacturing their own system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. Several factors are powering this trend. Read more
