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Wait...did Facebook buy a fabrication plant?

• ChuckMcM 13y ago
  This is the 21st century, you don't need a Fab any more, you just buy wafer starts from TSMC or Global Foundaries.
  • stephengillie 13y ago
    The title originally said FB were making ARM SoC...
    • ChuckMcM 13y ago
      I understand, and nVidia makes graphics chips, but they don't have a semiconductor fab. :-)
      • stephengillie 13y ago
        They don't?
        • ChuckMcM 13y ago
          Nope, not a one, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabless_manufacturing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabless_manufacturing for some more examples (like Qualcomm) but in general actually owning a fab is considered old school.