“Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has begun shipping the computing brains used in smartphones and tablets to Apple Inc., highlighting the U.S. company’s continued push to diversify its suppliers,” Lorraine Luk reports for The Wall Street Journal.
“TSMC began shipping its first batch of microprocessors to the Cupertino, Calif., company in the second quarter, people familiar with the matter said, supplanting Samsung Electronics Co., which had a lock on the orders for the chips until last year,” Luk reports. “TSMC and Apple have also agreed to work together on more advanced chips next year, according to a person familiar with the situation. Although Apple contracted with TSMC for the chips last year in a landmark deal, some analysts were skeptical that the Taiwanese chip maker, the world’s biggest contract chip maker by revenue, could deliver the complicated chips.”
“For Samsung, the move is a setback as it had been the exclusive supplier of microprocessors to Apple since the first iPhone was launched in 2007. It comes just as the South Korean company’s chip business is starting to feel the impact from a slowdown in smartphone sales. Samsung said Tuesday that its operating earnings in the latest second quarter likely fell by as much as 26.5% from a year earlier, hit by a glut of unsold smartphones,” Luk reports. “Their relationship began to deteriorate in 2011 when Apple sued Samsung in a U.S. court alleging that Samsung copied the technology giant’s smartphone and tablet designs… Apple no longer buys iPhone screens from Samsung and has reduced iPad-screen purchases, suppliers say. Since 2012, Apple has also shifted some memory-chip orders from Samsung to other Asian chip makers.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The more thermonuclear hits Samsung takes to their bottom line, the better.
Samsung makes and markets cheap, plastic, antiquated 32-bit crap with an off-the-shelf OS that was originally meant to be a BlackBerry knockoff but was hastily rejiggered to resemble Apple’s revolutionary iPhone.
Don’t settle for a POS Suzuki Samurai when you really wanted the One and Only Jeep.
Apple’s products came first, then Samsung’s:
Here’s what Google’s Android looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
Here’s what cellphones looked like before and after Apple’s iPhone:
A slow death and uncertainty at Samscum as regards to Apple’s reliance, is a fitting end to the scum.
I think other Android OEMs are happier… HTC, LG, Sony, Moto
However, the Chinese Androids are going to clean out Samsung and maybe the rest: Xiomi, Huawei, et al…
…the noose tightens.
is finally doing in the marketplace to solve what didn’t protect them in US patent suits. Flungdung can go tits-up, I loathe them.
Slow and steady wins every time.
For Samsung, the move is a setback…
Apple Strikes Fear…
So screwed Samsung. Soooo screwed.
“…hit by a glut of unsold smartphones,” could that be the difference between shipping and sold?
They could do with some more being “stolen”
My thoughts exactly. The “shipped” vs “sold” will be hard to swallow for them. It has finally come back to haunt them. GOOD!
Expect them to leave the back door unlocked.
I hope Samsung finally gets their just rewards.
With your name I figured you would have said ‘just desserts’.
the before and after picts never cease to shock me. the impact appl has had on technology. So well, i remember all the iMac commercials from bondi blue to she’s a rainbow flower and beautiful hues of transparent candy maker colors and all the while, microsoft belittling, mocking. I’m sure they still like their mobile device plan, meanwhile, all the new microsofts will have had their day.
I buy Sony, I buy Sharp, heck I even have bought Lucky Goldstar (LG).
I never by Samsung anything. (home appliances, TV’s, electronics)
People are surprised when I tell them this. They for some reason think Samsung is a good company.
I refer them to this regarding Samsung’s thieving ways…
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/06/apple-samsung-smartphone-patent-war
Please convince my brother jeff. At least he relented enough to by my niece a MacBook, blessed child.
Correction: …BUY…
zzzzz
Let’s add even more pain and reduce their turnover even more!
Do t buy any Samsung products, tell all your friends, family, post on social media.
Spread the word guys!
I beg to disagree. The Apple-Samsung relationship began to deteriorate much earlier when Samsung released its first iPhone (and, later, iPad) look-alikes running on a rip-off Google Android OS. The lawsuit was just a visible manifestation that Apple had finally decided that it had no other viable choice but to sue.
It takes a long time to switch vendors especially for highly complex items like this.
To be an Apple new supplier, you have to get the technology right to build the parts AND be able to provide 100M+ units per quarter. That is a big ask and needs time to build infrastructure (both machines and skilled workers).
Apple are great at this since they bankroll a lot of the investment and so are very good at enabling their suppliers.
“It takes a long time to switch vendors especially for highly complex items like this.” What is great about that is it means that once Apple has switched, they won’t be coming back for a very long time, if ever. Samsung has to be sweating that. There’s little chance they can settle and hope to make up with Apple.
Looks like SameCopYSung will need to actually try research & developing its own tech for once.
Crash & Burn SameSung
Haha. They won’t though. They have figured out that the cost of the lawyers over the short life of any of their copy products is less than the cost of actually doing the development. That’s the real rub with the legal system never sticking to the big penalty dollar fines. They need to be fined such a big amount that they will never copy again.
Hey Samsung. How’s business? Ha, ha, ha, ha.
I’m sure it’s going real smooth. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
I hope you smooth right into the ground, like you were dead.
Ha, ha ,ha, ha…..
Karma is a bitch and she knew Steve and she is pissed.
Scamsung has pissed in the punchbowl with Apple. Apple funded their expansion of memory chip production back in the day and lots else since. Their greed and theft will be their undoing.
Greed often brings bad karma. Samsung, from a profitability standpoint, would probably have made more money making components for Apple that they will totally on “smartphones”. As with many others here, I will never buy a Samsung product and discourage others from doing so.
You realize that this is silly. Samsung was selling mobile phones – and making tons of it – long before Apple entered the business. When Apple created the iPhone all existing mobile phones were no longer viable. It was either use Android to emulate the iPhone or go out of business like Nokia and (soon) Blackberry. Samsung was not the only company to choose to stay in business by adopting Android. But they were the only Android maker to actually sell devices (thanks to their huge advertising budget) which incurred the wrath of Apple fans.
Right now, Samsung’s big problems are A) their phablets are cannibalizing their tablet sales and B) they are facing competition in Asia for both the high end models from companies like Xiaomi and the lower end models from mid-range handset makers like Motorola and Lenovo and Sony (whose Xperia C3 is expected to be a huge seller). Right now, a Chinese company is selling a phone running KitKat for $90, and except for a terrible camera it is a very capable smartphone. When the Android One program gets underway, you are going to see more of that.
Samsung is losing ground, but to other Android makers who are better at design (especially Xiaomi), don’t flood the market with ridiculous half-baked products and don’t load their phones with bloatware. To put it another way … Samsung’s decline is coming by way of Android manufacturers who make better products. I am not sure how that is in Apple’s interests. Apple is better off with Android being dominated by a company that is horrible at design (both hardware and software), has a terrible strategy and their sole success was just by luck (inventing the phablet) like Samsung than the newer companies that actually understand Android and are coming out with good hardware. In other words, Apple is better off competing with Samsung than Xiaomi. Asus, for example, has already introduced an Android tablet with a 64 bit processor where Samsung MAY finally introduce such a beast in 2015. Asus is also working on a smartwatch that will cost no more than $150 and will cost as little as $99. Also, the most recent Nexus tablet was made by LG and is twice as good as any device ever made by Samsung.
So folks rooting for Samsung’s demise: be careful what you wish for.
Perhaps, asking for the demise of Samsung for creating really poor quality, reliability, weekly model changes, slow updates, mostly never updating to the latest OS, and ease of use. Possibly, single best thought out statement ever.
Well said… But for Apple and the rest of the industry, intelligent competition is better all around for consumers, even Apple consumers because it keeps Apple ahead of the curve (hopefully). It keeps Apples R&D creating new products and technologies, new markets. Apple needs good competition as do we. No place for Samsung. Companies like it are on the way out because consumers are becoming, overall, smarter shoppers and don’t mind paying for better quality products.