Fabless vs Fab - What's the difference?
fabless | fab | Related terms |
Of or pertaining to a company that does not make its own silicon wafers and primarily concerns itself with research and design.
fabulous (great or spectacular). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 652 (ISBN 0-395-44895-6)
A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
Fab is a related term of fabless.
As adjectives the difference between fabless and fab
is that fabless is of or pertaining to a company that does not make its own silicon wafers and primarily concerns itself with research and design while fab is fabulous (great or spectacular).As a noun fab is
a manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.As a verb fab is
fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers.fabless
English
Adjective
(-)- The fabless semiconductor company recently finished designing its new line of microchips.
fab
English
Etymology 1
From , by shorteningAdjective
(fabber)Derived terms
* fabbyEtymology 2
From and its derived terms, by shorteningNoun
(en noun)- Hundreds were put out of work when the chip fab shut down.
Synonyms
* fabberVerb
(fabb)- It uses digital data from a computer to “fab ” products and models of new products. [http://www.ennex.com/~fabbers/publish/FAB-ulous.asp]