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fabless

fabless adjective: of a company: that does not make its own silicon wafers, and primarily concerns itself with research and design.

Adjective

fabless (not comparable)

  1. Of a company: that does not make its own silicon wafers, and primarily concerns itself with research and design.
    • The fabless semiconductor company recently finished designing its new line of microchips.

Origin of fabless

fabrication and -less.

Questions about fabless

What does fabless mean?
Fabless means of a company: that does not make its own silicon wafers, and primarily concerns itself with research and design.
What part of speech is fabless?
Fabless is an adjective.

Words near fabless in the dictionary

  1. fablemonger
  2. fablemongers
  3. fabler
  4. fablers
  5. fables
  6. fabless
  7. fabliau
  8. fabliaux
  9. fabling
  10. fablings
  11. fablist

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