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Captive supply
Manufacturing capacity or silicon output reserved for the owner's own products rather than sold externally. An IDM's fabs and a systems company's internal chip team are both captive supply.
- Also known as
- Captive capacity, Captive fab
- Type
- Business
- Domain
- General Industry, Industry structure
Notes
Captive capacity gives control and priority but carries the full fixed cost, which is why several IDMs moved to fab-lite models.
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