SemiSerious

The new buzz word - acronym actually - coming out of today’s IBM-Chartered-Samsung Common Platform Forum today here in Santa Clara is the term introduced by Qualcomm Senior VP and GM, Behrooz Abdi. His view of the consortium is to create an “integrated fabless manufacturer” or IFM akin to the IDM he means to displace. (Qualcomm has after all surpassed TI in the RF space perhaps leading TI towards its fab-lite ideas.)

IBM and its partners here are putting on a great show. Lunch is over now, and it’s time to get back to the sessions, but I will post more later. Unfortunately, that will be after things shut down back East.

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