Samsung and TSMC Reportedly Still Competing for Rights to Produce Apple's A9 Chip

[Cisco_Kid]

How can Samsung compete with Apple and trash their iphone against the Galaxy in ads, then try to get the contract to build their next chips?

And Apple would still use them as suppliers for displays and other components.

Can you imagine how the meetings look like between the two?

I'm sure the meeting are more than civilized, competition in the media to create fanbois is just good business tactics.

 

[Michael Goff]

How can Samsung compete with Apple and trash their iphone against the Galaxy in ads, then try to get the contract to build their next chips?

And Apple would still use them as suppliers for displays and other components.

Can you imagine how the meetings look like between the two?

Apple knows Samsung can make the parts and Samsung likes money. It makes perfect sense from a business perspective.

 

[crsh1976]

Apple knows Samsung can make the parts and Samsung likes money. It makes perfect sense from a business perspective.

It also works the other way, Apple can't rely solely on TSMC to make all Ax chips because TSMC doesn't have the capacity, Apple needs Samsung to keep making a big chunk of them to keep selling iPhones and iPads.

See who's laughing now.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Obviously you don't if you think it has anything to do with chip design.

Of course it doesn't have anything to do with chip design. It does have to do, in part, with the fact that Samsung was/is involved in many aspects of the manufacturing process for the iPhone and then started selling phones that looked a lot like the iPhone. That's not the only reason and maybe not even a major reason but who else was making parts for the iPhone, making competing phones, and large enough to eat into Apple's sales?

 

[Michael Goff]

Of course it doesn't have anything to do with chip design. It does have to do, in part, with the fact that Samsung was/is involved in many aspects of the manufacturing process for the iPhone and then started selling phones that looked a lot like the iPhone. That's not the only reason and maybe not even a major reason but who else was making parts for the iPhone, making competing phones, and large enough to eat into Apple's sales?

They didn't have to be manufacturing them to make things that kind of looked similar. Other companies have as well. Samsung is the only one getting sued because they're the ones that can compete globally with Apple.

 

[gnasher729]

It also works the other way, Apple can't rely solely on TSMC to make all Ax chips because TSMC doesn't have the capacity, Apple needs Samsung to keep making a big chunk of them to keep selling iPhones and iPads.

See who's laughing now.

Lucky enough, Samsung has a lot of free capacity, since their high end phone sales are dropping massively.

 

[Traverse]

I'm more curious about the A9X than the A9.

Do I hear quad core??? Probably not....