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Two new companies want a piece of Apple's 5G modem business
The chip fab, chip assembly, and chip test are all different businesses. When a fab-less chip design company makes a device, they contract for all three of these processes. Assembly and test usually go together - https://semiengineering.com/knowledge_centers/packaging/outsourced-semiconductor-assembly-and-test/ You buy finished wafers, and they get shipped to the OSAT for packaging and test.
There are all sorts of packaging techniques, so a company is going to contract with a vendor who has experience with the device package of interest. This is all an ordinary part of the semiconductor business.