問8
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ファブレスを説明したものはどれか。
平成21年度 秋期 ITパスポート試験 問8
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解説
問 8
Incorrectア
«Manufacturing and supplying products under another company's trademark or brand» describes OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing). OEM is the side that takes on the manufacturing, the opposite position from a fabless company, which owns no plant and handles the planning.
- イ
正解 The correct answer is イ. As its origin shows — «fab» (a semiconductor manufacturing plant) plus «less» (without) — a fabless company owns no production facilities of its own. It concentrates its resources on product planning, design, development, and marketing, and outsources the manufacturing process to other companies. Because it avoids the huge capital investment and operating risk of running a plant, this model is common in fields with fast development cycles. Choice イ matches this definition exactly.
Incorrectウ
«A manufacturing-retail business that vertically integrates functions from product planning through manufacturing to sales» describes SPA (specialty store retailer of private label apparel). It keeps both manufacturing and sales in house through vertical integration, the exact opposite of the fabless model, which outsources manufacturing.
Incorrectエ
«A service that takes on the design, prototyping, and manufacturing of products as a single package» describes EMS (Electronics Manufacturing Service). EMS is a service provided by the contractor that carries out design and manufacturing on request, whereas fabless refers to the business model of the company placing the order; the two describe different parties.
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- Fabless = a business model with no factory of its own, specializing in planning and design and outsourcing manufacturing to other companies (fab + less).
- Sort out the easily confused manufacturing-model terms in pairs: OEM (the side that manufactures and supplies under another company's brand), EMS (a service that takes on everything from design to manufacturing), and SPA (a manufacturing-retail business vertically integrated from planning to sales).
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