“Samsung will this year quadruple the number of advanced mobile processors it sells to Apple — handing over half its manufacturing output to Cupertino’s ascendant iOS family,” Evans reports. “‘Samsung has agreed with Apple to quadruple monthly shipments of its mobile AP chips to 20,000 sheets throughout this year from 5,000 last year,’ said an industry source, citing Samsung’s suppliers as reported by The Korea Times.”
Evan reports, “Apple currently uses its self-designed A4 processor inside the iPhone 4, a chip it developed using acquired internal expertise and that of Intrinsity, which Apple also later acquired. Built for Apple under contract by Samsung using that company’s 45nm process, the A4 (which starts with the ARM Cortex-A8 CPU) is now inside the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV… Samsung is also building a $3.6 billion chip processing factory in Austin, Texas, the company said. This is highly interesting in light of Apple COO, Tim Cook’s recent disclosure that Apple has an outstanding $3.9 billion component supply deal — with persons unknown.”
Read more in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
it wouldn’t surprise me if one of the requirements of the deal was for Samsung to build the plant in the US, and Apple put up a huge part of the investment to do it. Nice to see someone creating jobs in the US for a change…
“Samsung will this year quadruple the number of advanced mobile processors it sells to Apple”
That’s like a lot more, like 4 time more! Should I buy more AAPL?
“Samsung is also building a $3.6 billion chip processing factory in Austin, Texas, the company said.” I agree with pdxflint – nice to see someone creating jobs in the US for a change. It would be nice if one of Apple’s OEM partners were to buy one of Dell’s now shut-down assembly facilities down the road and retask them to make iPads.
@pdxflint
Ditto
Send the other half to me.
Maybe the ol’ Rocket Docket will slow down some with all those jobs coming to Texas.
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