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Samsung to Produce Majority of Apple's A9 Chips for Next-Generation iPhone
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Off-toppic, but: I do hope Apple will someday support/allow TRIM support for the Samsung SSDs (or any other 3rd party SSD) I installed in all the MacBooks in our family.
When are these two companies just going to merge and create the largest company on the planet? Imagine that..... 
And I assume with this very wise statement you posted, you have a very deep & personal understanding of how these companies work? I assume that Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Samsung CEO report to you directly?
'Make' as in 'producing', they certainly do.
Why shouldn't Samsung do business with Apple? It's a good source of income.
FYI, Samsung has patents for actual technology that they utilize, unlike Apple who constantly file patent applications for concepts and mere ideas that we all know are never going to become products and is only done for the purpose of preventing anyone else to do something similar.
1. No, they make chips, not CPUs, that's a stretch.
2. Samsung is the biggest patent filer in the U.S. and has a lot of patents that really are what you describe. Do I need to post some of those here?
Also you say that because you don't have acces to Apple R&D labs, and apple only shows products after they are finished.
Just like how phones aren't about the number of cores that you have, similarly, it isn't about how much RAM you can stuff into the phone.
Android has had, for a long time, dual and quad core phones in their mobile phones.
Didn't solve the lag though.
So Apple has become Microsoft because they sell more devices then they did 10 years ago? If they were less successful, they wouldn't be Microsoft?
Laugh all you want but Samsung's Galaxys may not be as good but they are not exactly a IT/softawre-focused company. They make everything from Led panel to washing machine. Excuse them for not being the best.
The A series chips are designed by Apple's Engineers in Apple's Orlando, FL Design Center. Samsung Fabs an Apple Design. This includes the S1 in the Apple watch most likely by TSMC.
Samsung has nothing to do with the design of Apple's A Series Chips.
The Snapdragon 808 in the Galaxy 6 is not only the first 64 bit chip for them, it is a Qualcomm Design.
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Incorrect. But a nice pun.
This may be the only public use case image from Apple officially for an iPadPro like device.
Obviously actually a laptop display.
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Obviously actually a laptop display.
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Whenever samsung makes something for apple, it turns out great.
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nooo, because when apple takes over the world, why do they want samsung in it? They could let samsung control the space area.
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When are these two companies just going to merge and create the largest company on the planet? Imagine that.....
nooo, because when apple takes over the world, why do they want samsung in it? They could let samsung control the space area.
CPU is the one component we NEVER hear about people getting bad... it's not like a screen, where some may have edge bleed or something. Literally none of us have the slightest idea whether our CPus were made by Samsung or TSMC... & since they all work precisely the same, none of us can say with any authority whatsoever that one is better than the other.
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coffee meet nose... nose meet coffee... This made me laugh hard, at the wrong time...
Exactly, I don't thing this battle against Samsung and Google is worthless. People use whatever they like and fit their budget. If a regular smartphone is better than an iPhone is just an opinion that we all should respect. The same for iOS 8 vs whatever candy is the newest Android OS.
I hope your keyboard is ok. I've had a few meet a terrible coffee soaked death and it's never pretty!
They will each claim to have better yields. This is a key segment of differentiation in competition. But apparently it's been leaked this year with be a feast for Samsung as they gobble up the orders for iPhone and Apple Watch SoCs while TSMC already has current iPhone and iPad orders. Next year rumored to flip flop on the suppliers. They are competing on Yield, Volume, Price, and Performance/Technology.
The only reason some are upset about Samsung getting Apples fab business is because they assume Samsung is stealing Apples IP and using it against them in competition. If that were actually happening Apple would surely know about it. The simple fact of the matter is that Samsung is apparently capable of producing the chips in sufficient quantities at the right price and with the quality Apple demands better than other suppliers. Its business, not personal, and if Samsung is the best choice then so be it.
Forget the fAndroid crowd and their nonsense. They have become irrelevant to the discussion and Samsungs recent struggles in the mobile market proves that. The iHaters have already moved on to other Android OEMs as their best hope of killing Apple. Let em stew in their own hatred.
Forget the fAndroid crowd and their nonsense. They have become irrelevant to the discussion and Samsungs recent struggles in the mobile market proves that. The iHaters have already moved on to other Android OEMs as their best hope of killing Apple. Let em stew in their own hatred.