Exploratory study on emerging integrator business model in engineering chain of the semiconductor industry: Re-integration of vertical disintegration

This study attempts to explore the possible new business model in the engineering chain of the semiconductor industry to overcome the challenges of the trend of re-integration of vertical disintegration due to higher design complexity in the nano-CMOS generation. We propose one better alternative that a foundry separates its company into capital/technology intensive section and service integration section. The service integration section can be spin-off from a foundry to run the integrator business model.