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Samsung to Begin Work on Apple's 14-nm A9 Chips Before End of 2014

Samsung semiconductor head Kim Ki-nam today announced that the company will begin work on 14-nanometer processors for partners such as Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD before the end of 2014, reports ZDNet (http://www.zdnet.com/samsung-expects-sales-boost-from-apple-chip-deal-7000034269/) (via 9to5Mac (http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/02/samsung-effectively-confirms-it-will-manufacture-apples-next-generation-a9-processors-for-ios-devices-using-14-nanometer-process/)).
 
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 The comments indicate that Samsung will produce Apple's next-generation A9 chip to be used in next year's line of iPhones and iPads. Currently, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus (http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-6/) use the 20-nanometer A8 processor. It is also likely that the forthcoming iPad Air 2 (http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipad/) and second-generation Retina iPad mini (http://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipad-mini/) will utilize Apple's A8 chip.
 
 The report also states that Samsung is producing around 30% of the total volume of Apple's A8 chip, while TSMC is handling 70% of the production load. Teardowns (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/19/iphone-6-20-nm-tsmc/) of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus revealed A8 chips that were manufactured by TSMC, although it is possible that a select number of shipped devices contain chips produced by Samsung.
 
 Last year, it was reported (http://www.macrumors.com/2013/12/18/samsung-and-tsmc-to-reportedly-share-production-of-apples-14-nm-a9-chips-in-2015/) that Apple signed a contract with Samsung to handle 30% to 40% of total A9 chip production, while TSMC would be getting the rest of the production load. A report (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/08/25/tsmc-16nm-a9/) from August stated that TSMC was ahead of schedule with its new 16-nanometer process, which was said to be for Apple's A9 chip. However, these latest comments from Ki-nam may indicate that Korean company has already won the bid to produce the A9 with its upcoming 14-nanometer process over TSMC's proposal.
 
 
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Source: Samsung to Begin Work on Apple's 14-nm A9 Chips Before End of 2014 (http://www.macrumors.com/2014/10/02/samsung-work-a9-chips-end-2014/)