[LINK] Intel v ARM processors

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Tom Worthington
<tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:
> Yes, some years ago I visited the ARM HQ outside Cambridge, England. It
> was a very small building with a few people at computers, with no labs
> or chip fab plants. They explained that they make software which people
> then use to design microprocessors and so they are several levels away
> from actual chip making: <http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/uk.html>.

Theres plenty of IC makers that do not own any actual manufacturing
plant. Those are called "fabless" chip makers.

Taiwan is full of them.

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/HONSHI/20061117/123878/

FC