"For 32/28nm, Samsung and its partners were the first to introduce the Foundry HKMG strategy. At 32/28nm, a Gate-First HKMG was selected since the scheme has proven to meet market and customer needs achieving superior area scaling and preservation of layout styles without complex restricted design rules."
Do the words "restricted design rules" not mean anything to you?
Who should I trust, some blind Apple fanboy or Samsung, the leaders in manufacturing tech?
You literally have zero idea what you're talking about.Apple "designs" CPUs in the same way you design your computer by buying an Intel CPU, an Nvidia GPU, Samsung dRAM, Samsung SSD and some power supply.
Just think of ordering a pizza. That's pretty much how Apple's "Designs" their CPUs. They can determine the clockspeeds and the GPU they want to use, but that's about it.
Asian market always takes competition to the next level, whereas American companies usually value integrity and honesty over sacrifice of principles. I am proud to be an American because all the American companies here (Google, Moto, and Apple) have class and present their phones as they are. I could imagine the decision in the engineering department, a VP thought of the good old days of a budding Silicon Valley where a young boy could get a job at a company by walking up to its CEO, where innovation thrived, driven by a group of idealistic young men, so he scoffed at the proposal to compete with these Asian newcomers at their level. Samsung might be the biggest smartphone maker, and HTC and Asus are poster childs for successful Taiwanese companies, but they have nothing of the tradition and history of people like Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, Sherman Fairchild, and Andy Grove. This is why Silicon Valley continues to be the birthplace of most cutting edge technologies and inventions while their Asian counterparts master their arts of copying and expanding. I think what it comes down to is risk. What makes Silicon Valley special is the risk-taking courage. Samsung could come up 50 useless whiz features because as long some of them work, some generate buzz, then they accomplish a goal. It is 1,000 harder for companies like Google and Apple to say, create an entire new platform, or embed a finger print sensor, or use a new screen technology (retina), a new casing material (metal and glass); these are much more risky because they require huge capital investment and a commitment of your product line and company identity where a failure cannot be an option. Then once they pioneered it, it is much easier for Asian companies to follow suit and refine. "You got a retina? I will out 1080p in my phone." Well you see, it is not hard to put 1080p in a phone, it is hard to be the first company to take the huge risk to explore a new market. Once proven, of course it is easier for other companies to learn and follow. People of the world need to give more credits to this tradition entrepreneurial culture that differentiates American companies on this list. Without Google and Apple recently, or Intel, Fairchild, Bell Lab, Microsoft, etc, Samsung and LG will be still copying Sony and make DVD players.
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Think about it from the engineers perspective. They always want to build and code their products to be better, not meeting a standard. Now if they know how to ace a test, why wouldn't they tweak their systems to do it? Well some engineers won't, those with class and confidence that their PhD degrees probably from a better school taught them to use their time well, on work and research of actual substance and impact, instead of wasting time on inflating their works.
I highly doubt you've been to Korea. I have been there and I have yet to see anyone selling fake Nikes and Adidas.
Can you show me proof that the fake adidas and the fake iPhone below came from Korea? They look Chinese to me.
Nexus 4 cheap plastic phone?
First, Adadis is english?
And second, you have show Chinese knockofss, they don't have nothing to do with Korea
Just a personal example...
I am into the printing industry... We print a lot of packaging materials for various industries... Once a client approached me for packaging needs for a new product they had developed... And we're exhibiting it in a 15 day exhibition of some sort... They wanted a huge amount of cartons to be delivered within the first three days of the exhibition... Which wasn't possible given my production constraints... I told them I would deliver certain amounts throughout the exhibition duration and that they definitely won't be making all the sales in the first five days... What my client told me so many years ago is what I've seen happening throughout with companies like Hyundai and Samsung... He said "We have just five days to sell our product as unique... Because on the first day there'll be a lot of Korean manufacturers taking samples and on the third day they'll be selling our exact product at half the price... Which we can't afford given our r & d costs... So we have just five days to make our profits..."
I don't mean to generalize... But that's straight from someone whose experienced it first hand...
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I have a wife and a kid... His point is invalid...![]()
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Is English not your primary language. All your quote basically says is that Samsung is flexible and not restrictive with their chip. designs. Not that Samsung designs their chips exclusively.
Apple "designs" CPUs in the same way you design your computer by buying an Intel CPU, an Nvidia GPU, Samsung dRAM, Samsung SSD and some power supply.
Just think of ordering a pizza. That's pretty much how Apple's "Designs" their CPUs. They can determine the clockspeeds and the GPU they want to use, but that's about it.
This is Chinese, not Korean.All they do in Korea is copy everything. I love Koreans but they don't innovate in any business. When you go there all you see is fake Nikes, Adidas, cheap suits, faux leather, faux wood, faux gold, faux everything. It should be expected that they cheat in benchmark tests.
Apart of the moral question, they are not making the processor appear 20% faster, it is its nominal speed, they are not overclocking it.
So...you would like a new phone to come out, claim a certain speed, you buy it, and find it's not faster than your old phone? Except when running the benchmark. Yaayy.
Or are you just being contrary (as usual) because this isn't a bad thing about Apple?
This is Chinese, not Korean.
What about Sony and Nokia? I think they are pretty honest too..
Perhaps, manufacturers should start to focus more on battery life than just processor performance.
What use is a fast phone that can only live up to 4 hours of usage before it died??![]()
Nearly All Mobile Device Makers Cheat on Benchmarks, Except Apple and Motorola
As an average customer I would be utterly disappointed, if I bought -let's say a Galaxy Note 3- as a replacement of my existing Note 1, after having read the specs and the benchmark scores