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eSilicon is a company with a unique business model. A few weeks ago I sat down with Kalar Rajendiran to find out how they’ve been doing.

As you probably know, eSilicon is a fabless ASIC company. They operate like an ASIC company and not like a design house although they do provide design services too, just like any ASIC company. But their business model is not to do the design and hand it to you, and then have you go and get it manufactured. They manage the entire manufacturing process and deliver you packaged, tested parts just as if they had their own fab. Primarily they use TSMC for manufacturing. But they are completely independent. Indeed I met with them at the Global Foundries technology conference.

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