Contract manufacturing and foundries

Business models

Making other companies' products at scale. Semiconductors dominate the literature because the fabless/foundry split is its clearest form.

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  1. Chip WarChris Miller, 2022
  2. The ChipT. R. Reid, 1984
  3. How Asia WorksJoe Studwell, 2013

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Chip War
T1 Chip War
Chris Miller · 2022 · How fabless design and pure-play foundry split the semiconductor business.
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Andrew Wilkinson
The Chip
T2 The Chip
T. R. Reid · 1984 · Origins of the integrated circuit and the industry structure it created.
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Patrick Collison
How Asia Works
T2 How Asia Works
Joe Studwell · 2013 · How export discipline built the Asian manufacturing base foundries sit on.
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Chips and Change
T3 Chips and Change
Clair Brown, Greg Linden · 2009 · Academic account of the industry's shift to contract manufacturing.
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Dying for an iPhone
T3 Dying for an iPhone
Jenny Chan, Mark Selden, Pun Ngai · 2020 · Foxconn from the inside; the labour cost of the contract model.
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The Nvidia Way
T3 The Nvidia Way
Tae Kim · 2024 · The fabless half of the foundry bargain, told through Nvidia.
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