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Title: Next iPhone chip will reportedly be made by Samsung Post by: HCK on February 06, 2015, 09:00:16 am Next iPhone chip will reportedly be made by Samsung
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Samsung may be one of its biggest competitors, but Apple is again turning to the South Korean company to get chips made for the iPhone, according to a report.</p><p> Samsung will make Apple’s next chip, which will likely be called the A9, in its newest factories running on the 14-nanometer manufacturing process, according to a news report in Re/code (http://recode.net/2015/02/04/apple-taps-samsung-to-manufacture-next-iphone-chip/), which cited anonymous sources familiar with the matter.</p><p> Apple designs its mobile chips in-house, but gets them made through contract manufacturers. In the past, Apple has turned to Samsung for most of its iPhone chips, but the most recent A8 chip in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were made by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2880232/next-iphone-chip-will-reportedly-be-made-by-samsung.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Next iPhone chip will reportedly be made by Samsung (http://www.macworld.com/article/2880232/next-iphone-chip-will-reportedly-be-made-by-samsung.html#tk.rss_all) |