Pure-play semiconductor foundry
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A Pure-Play Semiconductor Foundry is a company that does not offer a significant amount of IC products of its own design, but instead focuses on producing ICs for other companies.
As of 2004, the top 10 Pure-Play Semiconductor Foundries were:
- TSMC (Taiwan)
- UMC Group (Taiwan)
- Chartered (Singapore)
- SMIC (China)
- Dongbu/Anam (South Korea)
- SSMC(Singapore)
- HHNEC (China)
- Jazz Semiconductor (U.S.)
- Silterra (Malaysia)
- X-Fab (Europe)
(source design-resume.com)