Sentence examples for idm from inspiring English sources

Intel both designs and makes chips (in industry argot, it is an integrated device manufacturer, or IDM).

Should this be true, there will be much celebration for fans of warm, hypnogogic IDM.

By this time, though, the genre Warp had earmarked as "electronic listening music" and which had variously been known as "art techno", "intelligent techno" and "electronica" had found itself another name, one that would prove hugely controversial over the years: IDM.

Call this the Identity Doesn't Matter (IDM) view.

Like most rock kids of his generation, from an early age he had a working knowledge of electronic music through listening to industrial bands such as Nine Inch Nails, and an obsession with "IDM" ("intelligent dance music"), in particular "anything on Warp Records".

They gave it some business, but on the whole considered the idea crackpot to this day, Intel, the largest IDM, maintains that chip design and manufacture belong together.

At the same time, fabless companies, of which he reckons there are about 50 with annual revenues of at least $100m, compete with one another and with IDMs.

A fab costs between $2 billion and $3 billion to build.At the time, huge so-called integrated device manufacturers (IDMs), such as Intel, did both the designing and the manufacturing under one roof.

It would then sell capacity to many customers not only chip designers that had no plants but also IDMs whenever they hit production bottlenecks—and thus achieve economies of scale and better returns on big capital investments.

Technologically, they had always been a step behind never quite managing, for instance, to etch the circuit lines on a chip (a popular measure of technological prowess) as narrowly as the top IDMs.

United Microelectronics, Chartered Semiconductor and other start-ups flattered Mr Chang by imitating him.Foundries were, however, still considered the poor relations of the glamorous IDMs.