Being fabless has quite a few advantages too, the cost of building / running a fab is huge, so can only be afforded by major player, or folks who can live on ve

Being fabless has quite a few advantages too, the cost of building / running a fab is huge, so can only be afforded by major player, or folks who can live on very old process nodes. Most startups, and even ADI themselves use the later nodes like 16nm with external fabs like TSMC.