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TSMC Confirms Deal with Apple to Produce A-Series Chips for Future iOS Devices

Great...

Every component Apple has moved away from Samsung has led to a bag of hurt for Apple customers.

Exhibit A: LG screens on their $3k macbook pros.

This is gonna suck.

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wizard said:
I don't know about good numbers but this is plenty of incentive to wait until 2014 for an iPad update. We will get one of these three things:
  1. Longer battery life
  2. Far greater performance
  3. Possibly one and two combined
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Yeah, you will also get:
- Second class, color inaccurate screen from LG
- Wifi issues
 
apfeljonas said:
I just designed a better logo in one minute with LibreOffice, lol.
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How is that logo better? Please enlighten me. :confused:

Are any of you people complaining about the logo potential customers for TSMC?
As gnasher729 pointed out, the current logo is extremely clear and should make perfect sense to their customers.
 
iChrist said:
Every component Apple has moved away from Samsung has led to a bag of hurt for Apple customers.

Exhibit A: LG screens on their $3k macbook pros.

This is gonna suck.
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Back in the day, it was Apple pushing up Samsung LCD production by investing hundred million dollars in the company. Today, Apple is in a position to invest an awful lot more money if they wish to do so. And TSMC doesn't make fridges and TVs, so to the average MacRumors reader they are not that wellknown. In the industry, the are the acknowledged leader.
 
wizard said:
Most likely a thief considering is love of torrents.
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b open minded .. Just like android :D .. it was for just sake of feature comparison..

Actually because of apple closed iOS (jailbreaking / thiefism is promoted) like i have my CC on apple but i cant buy games in my country store :) .. so i have to go through so many steps to just get a simple angry bird game in iphone
 
I really hope that quality doesn't suffer from this transition. However I haven't heard of this brand before so therefore they could be the best there is and I don't know it, just hoping this is a good move by apple.
 
Matariel said:
Apple stopped using Motorola chips because the world kinda moved past the 68000, they stopped producing the things in 1996.

IBM was the next partner because of the Power architecture's vector processing advantage over Intel at the time, which helps enormously with graphics and video processing. That's why they bashed them, they picked a chip with a very specific advantage at one task, at that one time. Steve Jobs wasn't even at the company when this switch happened.

They switched to Intel because IBM's development got to the end of the road in terms of performance vs power usage. We wouldn't have a laptop with 12 hour battery life if Apple kept with IBM, there never was a PowerBook G5 because it would've overheated with a battery life of less than 2 hours.

It didn't take much convincing for Steve Jobs to convince the faithful that Intel was the way of the future when it was announced at WWDC 2005.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdTqnYnFyg

Oh and by the way, Apple Mac sales were flat for the 5 years prior to the Intel transition. You all know the level of growth they're at now.
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IBM and Motorola produced PowerPC chips, G3s and G4s used both.
 
The Wall Street Journal said:
The process had been beset by glitches preventing the chips from meeting Apple's speed and power standards, TSMC officials said.
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Interesting choice of words. A glitch is an ephemeral event that is hard to identify the cause of, can generally be ignored, and does not reflect negatively on the entity experiencing the glitch.

If TMSC's chips had issues meeting speed and power standards, it's instead a reflection of their overall capability - that needs/needed to be improved.
 
4TheLoveOfTech said:
Really...

With the icons Ive presented and the Little Pony Pastel color pallet of iOS 7 that's your first comment to the post.

Maybe TSMC can help Apple redesign iOS 7 so it looks like something someone would want to use besides a 14 year old year girl.
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a 14 year old girl can design a better logo than TSMC's current logo.

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verniesgarden said:
are you sure? apples design team seems to be lacking these days
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fine, get Scott Forstall to design it. sheesh.
 
So who's making the Ax chip in the iPhone 5S floating around?
If contract if these guys is for 2014 generation, and that chip isn't a Samsung, it seems odd to have a piggy in the middle.
 
Milquetoast said:
Interesting choice of words. A glitch is an ephemeral event that is hard to identify the cause of, can generally be ignored, and does not reflect negatively on the entity experiencing the glitch.

If TMSC's chips had issues meeting speed and power standards, it's instead a reflection of their overall capability - that needs/needed to be improved.
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Well, I don't think the WSJ is qualified to decide whether it's a 'glitch' or not.
 
fertilized-egg said:
It looks like I didn't make my point clear. Apple didn't "go another" with retina MBP. LG has always been one of main suppliers for displays. People have this weird idea that Apple picked LG to spite Samsung Display which technically isn't even the same company as Samsung Electronics who make the phones and chips. LG has always been supplying displays for iMac and laptops for Apple, and iPhones and iPad, much longer and in a larger capacity than Samsung.

Samsung might benefit from this deal but can other clients provide as much demand and price point as Apple did?
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Samsung won't have to suffer and get the lowest price that they would have from apple. They can charge more to others that they weren't able to with apple. I am sure samsung will be fine out of this, I mean who wouldn't want to go through samsung when they have such a history with having pretty solid production and some of the best chips out there, not to mention their screens.
 
wizard said:
Actually TSMC did far better with a difficult node transition than many foundries. Just look at Global Foundries for just one example. The reality is that it took awhile but TSMC got its crap together before most of the foundries world wide. At this point rumors are that the lead at the 20 nm nodes.
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I hope so.

wizard said:
All the rumors about Apples anger with Samsung don't really hold up as it looks like TSMC is pulling ahead to a world wide leadership position. Apples move is likely motivated as much by the desire to be on the best process in the future.
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I don't know if Apple burned all bridges at Samsung since Apple will continue to rely on Samsung for parts. I don't like that it likely burned at least one important bridge.

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iChrist said:
Great...

Every component Apple has moved away from Samsung has led to a bag of hurt for Apple customers.

Exhibit A: LG screens on their $3k macbook pros.

This is gonna suck.

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Yeah, you will also get:
- Second class, color inaccurate screen from LG
- Wifi issues
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I don't think Apple can move completely away from Samsung. I hope rational minds prevail.
 
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