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Horizontal specialisation
The industry structure in which separate companies each specialise in one layer of the value chain, such as EDA, IP, design, foundry, OSAT or equipment, and trade across standardised interfaces.
- Also known as
- Horizontal disaggregation
- Type
- Business
- Domain
- General Industry, Industry structure
Notes
The fabless-foundry split is the defining example and is what made it possible to start a chip company without owning a fab.
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