Costly process development and capex expenses drive move to outsource. October 03, 2012-- Fab-lite/asset-lite strategies began to take shape in the late 1990s when several U.S. IDMs launched ...

Fab-lite business model strengthens; IDMs aim to keep capex at or below 10% of annual sales. August 28, 2014 -- Arguably, no other trend has so quickly swept through the IC industry and stirred up so ...

A standard INFILE statement specifies an external file to be read by an INPUT statement. A CA-IDMS INFILE statement specifies a subschema, which in turn identifies the CA-IDMS database, records, and ...

The supply of automotive IGBT continues to fall short of demand, and international IDMs have seen clear order visibility throughout 2023, while Chinese semiconductor companies are also stepping up the ...

Global semiconductor IDMs continue to invest in back-end processes in ASEAN; Western firms are more aggressive than Japanese peers in establishing and expanding plants in Singapore and Malaysia.