It's a great logo. That's why your talking about it. Now where are my corduroy pants?
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Samsung Reportedly Drops Out of Apple's A8 Chip Production Over Low Yields
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It's a great logo. That's why your talking about it. Now where are my corduroy pants?
Why should Apple be afraid? Apple blew away the competition in designing their SoCs. Only Intel was able to compete with the A7.
Editors, please clarify: Did Samsung drop out (per the headline), or were they dropped (per the body text)? Unprofitable to continue, or penalized for poor performance?
Not that it matters in the big scheme of things. Both are likely to happen at one point or another (and I believe already have).
And as to who's copying who? It's a chicken vs. egg proposition. Evolution, not spontaneous creation. Whether you learn from your competitors' success, or learn from their mistakes, either way you're taking lessons from the other guy. And that, not some totally unique invention developed in a vacuum, is how society progresses.
Not that it matters in the big scheme of things. Both are likely to happen at one point or another (and I believe already have).
And as to who's copying who? It's a chicken vs. egg proposition. Evolution, not spontaneous creation. Whether you learn from your competitors' success, or learn from their mistakes, either way you're taking lessons from the other guy. And that, not some totally unique invention developed in a vacuum, is how society progresses.
Can I correct this, please: Prepare for Apple fans and others to bash you with facts.
About six percent. That's quite good. You need to realise that 0% defects is not the goal: Producing a wafer costs a certain amount of money. For that money, you get a certain number of working chips. If the defect rate is too low, then you could save money on the production of the wafer with a slightly higher defect rate, and still pay less per working chip. It's only if you go to 30% or 40% and the defect rate means you can't deliver the chips you promised, that's when you are in trouble.
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So I guess you are right. It's not worth to talk about things not even used. NFC anyone?
This still does not make any sense.
A8 processors - No one ever claimed Samsung copied Apple's processors. They use Exynos and Snapdragon. Besides what other processor was going to be built? The A8 is the next processor in Apple's progression.
2GB of RAM - You've got to be kidding. How long have they been using 2GB of RAM?
Screens - This is the funniest of all. They have 1.476 trillion screen sizes with 2.732 billion more ready for release in 2014.
It can be claimed they copied design style from Apple on their earlier products - I completely agree with this by the way. But their current gen of phones are worlds different from Apple's design. With that being said, the original poster's question is still valid. What products can Samsung copy based on components?
Bolded: Whaaa? Samsung doesn't build anything for Apple. Outside of the requested components why would Samsung need or Apple send any other information regarding their products?
Short version: Apple asks for everything in your post. Samsung can copy what?
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the Chinese article article itself said the reporting was based on speculation and rumors. Samsung semiconductor is a very profitable division within Samsung electronics. i would think the easier solution to "penalization" would be to apply credits to subsequent manufacturing volumes.
Good riddance. Let's see what Samsung does when they don't have anyone to steal ideas from. The sooner Samsung fails, the better for technology, honestly.
If you think that iOS7 looks like Android, you should go for an eye test. Android is the most bland, boring, and uninspired UI, period.
If you think that iOS7 looks like Android, you should go for an eye test. Android is the most bland, boring, and uninspired UI, period.
That's exactly what I was wondering myself. What process is Samsung using for their newest chips? Is it 20nm? If so, they must have the fabricating process down pat to produce enough for themselves. Is this just Samsung wanting out of producing for Apple?
So pretty much like football clubs, most artists or musicians and movie directors. So according to you, if you are doing something commercial, you don't deserve a fan base. That means the only people who deserve a fan base would be people that are so unsuccessful that they won't have any fans anyway.
Certainly for the minor demand that they have.
However you are foolish to believe that Samsung would let the billions of $$$$$ Apple supplies slip away on purpose. In fact I could see heads rolling at Samsung if this is true. Apple at one time was more than 80% of Samsungs foundry business.
Beyond that I have this feeling that Apple will likely be leveraging older process technologies to keep the older "A" series chips in production. This simply to leverage development costs and to spread out risk. As such we could see an A7 upgrade to the Touch which would be just one example of this in practice.
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Actually that sounds nothing at all like that. Take it at face value, Samsung couldn't meet demand requirements. It does no good to read into reporting something that was never said.
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The logo is almost a perfect fit for the company. It isn't an attempt at a graphics art display of excessive talent.
However you are foolish to believe that Samsung would let the billions of $$$$$ Apple supplies slip away on purpose. In fact I could see heads rolling at Samsung if this is true. Apple at one time was more than 80% of Samsungs foundry business.
Beyond that I have this feeling that Apple will likely be leveraging older process technologies to keep the older "A" series chips in production. This simply to leverage development costs and to spread out risk. As such we could see an A7 upgrade to the Touch which would be just one example of this in practice.
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Actually that sounds nothing at all like that. Take it at face value, Samsung couldn't meet demand requirements. It does no good to read into reporting something that was never said.
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Am I the only one who thinks TSMC has a horrible logo?
The logo is almost a perfect fit for the company. It isn't an attempt at a graphics art display of excessive talent.
yep, i heard samsung had a fingerprint scanner before apple did.
and samsung had a 64 bit chip before apple did. apple heard samsung was gonna put them in their phones so they copied and put them in 5s. in the end, samsung decided both were rubbish and threw them away
but of course, joking aside, yes, u r right. however, samsung, with the dodgy practices, knew everything on new apple hardware designs. at least those won't be leaked anymore!
Well first that isn't true. Second; do you really believe that A7 delivers all the performance needed in a tablet?
Apples tablets are a long ways from delivering on the vision many of us have with respect to this technology. Apple literally needs to pack more of everything into these machines, ore processing power, more RAM, and more flash storage.
I didn't bother to count them, I just estimated a little below 10%. Mostly I don't think it's a good thing to emphasize on your logo.
If you think Apple is following Samsung and Google based on some aesthetic changes to iOS 7, you're missing the big picture. Apple is setting the pace of innovation and dictating to Google and Samsung what the future of mobile is. Just look at the biggest innovations in mobile last year: 64 bit CPUs, dual flash, motion co-processors, iPad Air (10" tablet, just 1 lb), iBeacon, and of course, fingerprint sensors that actually work.
These are innovations that fundamentally moves mobile technology forward, and we're only scratching the surface of some of those foundational innovations.
Agreed... I still think it was cheeky how Samsung started cloning/competing with iPhones when they were making lots of semi-secret components for Apple.
They will always be scum for that IMO.