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Fabrinet

A precision manufacturer that builds complex optical, laser, and sensor products for other companies, counting tech giants like NVIDIA and Cisco among its customers. Fabrinet was founded in 2000 by Tom Mitchell, a co-founder of Seagate Technology, who started it by taking over a former Seagate factory in Chokchai, Thailand. Its name is a portmanteau of "fabrication" and "network," and its signature "factory-within-a-factory" model lets each customer run its own physically separated production space to protect secrets.