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ASIC vendor (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit vendor)
A supplier that takes a customer's specification or netlist and delivers finished packaged chips, owning the mask set, manufacturing relationship and test programme.
The customer buys parts, not wafers.
- Also known as
- Custom silicon vendor
- Type
- Business
- Domain
- Business & Market, Business models
Notes
Broadcom's and Marvell's custom ASIC divisions supply most hyperscaler accelerators built outside the merchant GPU market.
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