Chinese language China Times is reporting that that Apple has dumped Samsung’s SEMCO for its important flip-chip chip scale package for ARM chips to Taiwanese printed circuit board maker Unimicron Technology Corp.
Jack Purcher reports, “It’s another move by Apple to decrease its business with Samsung for slavishly copying their products.”
Read more in the full article here.
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100% South Korean made Satellite have European components and imaging technology 🙂
I can’t believe that Snoop Dogg would even think of posting such a bunch of drivel like this that makes the US look so stupid when a guy like this is the spokesman.
What’s wrong with the video i posted, it shows how much of a liar the Koreans are and how this affects apple so badly. The Koreans deliberately unappreciated the Japanese friendship and olive branch, what kind of mentality is that ?
good job, Snoop…just ignore 313, he has no grasp of history, he thinks Louis Armstrong was the first man on the moon. “The Satchmo Has Landed.”
Thanks, I figured out a while ago that 313 is loopy, common sense dont work for him
Great to see this move Abd future moves to be completely free of the indicted patent infringers!
Realistically how soon could they do this?
Please update MdN to 4″ iPhone 5
And the option for bigger a font.
It’s been years, this is very Adobe like.
I’ll second that!
Slowly but surely, Samsung will regret their actions, one component at a time. One day, they will wake up and say, “Why aren’t we making as much money, ohhh, yeah, I remember now, Apple is a big fat mean-doo-doo-head.”
RIP SS.
1000
LOL!
“its important flip-chip chip scale package for ARM chips”
What does that mean?
no one knows, Mj..it is one of the mysteries of life.
Too slow. Too slow.
Apple should really put that 120 billion to use. Apple should have made this move 2 years ago.
It takes time to build the skill set, get the equipment to work to spec and the production capability to cope with the volume.
I just returned from a two-week trip to China to review product sourcing and supply logistics for a client; it was my fifth trip to China in the past year for this client. So, I think I am fully qualified to say that comments like KarlV’s, and previous takes by MDN, that bemoan the speed at which Apple is weaning itself from Samsung are uninformed at best, and moronic at worst.
People who think this took too long have no professional appreciation for what it takes to revise a logistics chain, especially at the immense scale at which Apple operates. Even if there were no contractual inhibitors (more on that in a second), switching semiconductor fab’ing takes years of prequalification, negotiation, tooling, validation and ramp-up. Regardless of what you imagine, I can tell you for a cold, hard fact that there are only a couple companies on Planet Earth that can meet Apple’s quality, quantity and schedule requirements for these components, and Samsung is first among them. That this switch is being made at all is a small miracle and a testimony to Apple’s supply chain genius.
Furthermore, none of us know for sure what the contractual issues have been, but it is safe to say that Apple’s agreements for many components made by Samsung predate 2010, which is when Samsung began selling devices that were blatant rip-offs of the iPhone and iPad. Breaking these contracts early was probably not in Apple’s best interests.
Finally, if you read between the lines in Apple’s annual report and other SEC filings, you can find billions of dollars in expenditures Apple has been making for several years in its supply chain – much of it in direct investments in component fabricators.
In short, KarlV, your comments – and ones like it by others – are profoundly uninformed and really pretty stupid.
I agree – except for the stupid part. Anyone on the outside could make that mistake.
No it’s pretty stupid all right. Even a layman could come to an easy uneducated guess this would not be easy and a time consuming process. I love it when these guys just throw it off the cuff like they were the first to think of it and think all you have to do is snap your fingers authoritatively to make it happen at a moment’s notice. Like just flipping a switch.
It can see that perhaps the original statement by KarlV is/was wishful thinking, impatience, lack of knowledge with the process, or some other parameter such as stupid.
I can also see that perhaps the reply from Ralph M is/was wishful thinking, impatience, lack of knowledge with the process or some other parameter such as stupid. Furthermore I feel that Ralph M’s post reeks of that American arrogance that typically snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
Ralph M did a superb post personalizing his experience and adding insight into a complex and often convoluted integrated process then totally spoiled the whole post, at least in my opinion, by calling KarlV stupid.
Ralph M would have done the world a much better service if he had added a touch of kindness at the end of his post, something like “I hope this information gives you some deeper insight into the process.”
Jack’s been reading MDN.
The «Read more in the article here» link goes nowhere.
What do you expect? Striving for perfection on MDN? They aren’t quite up to Apple standards and frankly, I don’t think they care to even try. This is a very very common occurrence on this site.
Perhaps MDN will answer the prayers of us, the great unwashed, and permanently delete your account to spare us from your self-righteous, condescending horseshit.
Of course you would have to step up to the plate and take a swing when you can barely express yourself without using foul language.
313, please take your sentimental issues elsewhere cause we don’t want them. Also have you taken the strong prescription drugs your doctor prescribed for your never ending mental issues?
Thank you for you kind words and concern for my health. I am not very familiar with the kind of drugs you are suggesting. How is it that you are so knowledgable?
Lol, well said
That was for botvinnik
Yes please delete 313….
Oh. Nevermind, he will come back as 314…
Guess he;s been deleted 312 times before.