“The chasm between Samsung Electronics and Apple is expected to widen further as the U.S. electronics giant has excluded its Korean rival from a project to develop A7 application processors, due to be released in the first half of next year,” Kim Yoo-chul reports for The Korea Times.
“‘Apple is sharing confidential data for its next A7 system-on-chip (SoC) with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). TSMC has begun ordering its contractors to supply equipment to produce Apple’s next processors using a finer 20-nanometer level processing technology,’ said an executive at one of Samsung’s local partners in Korea by telephone, Wednesday,” Kim reports. “Amid sluggish demand for conventional chips hit by poor sales of personal computers, Apple’s orders were a big help in lifting Samsung’s semiconductor business.”
Kim reports, “‘Apple is cutting the use of Samsung displays for its products. Now the deterioration of ties has expanded to chips. You should remember that the application business is one of Samsung’s new growth engines in which the firm is heavily investing,’ said an official of another top-tier parts supplier to the Korean company… ‘If Samsung fails to win Apple orders for A7 chips, then some of Samsung’s system chip-manufacturing lines will be stopped. That’s a scenario Samsung really doesn’t want to see.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Too bad, convicted serial patent infringer, finally you reap what you’ve sown, soulless slavish copier.
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I wonder if North Korea favors Apple or Samsung…
The fat little devil favors Apple products. He has been photographed with them.
Could this problem be addressed with Location Profiles?
As in ones that disable all functionality except emergency phone calls if within 100 feet of the fat little devil’s palace of doom or whatever it’s called.
According to a recent photo, Kim Jong Un uses an iMac.
Samsung reports lowered parts production on decreased Apple part orders, it SO obvious that Apple is doomed. iPhone and iPad orders are non-existant based on parts forecast from ex-Apple supplier SameDung
Dark night, you left off the [/sarcasm] at the end of your post.
Either that, or you posted a truly dumbassed comment, making a claim that Apple’s doomed because Samsung reports reduced parts orders, because Apple is taking its parts orders to a variety of alternative suppliers.
I hope it was the former…
There are some posts that just don’t need the [/sarcasm] tag. 😉
IT IS ABOUT TIME TIM COOK! Time to man up!
Is this the last of Apple’s Samsung component manufacturing ties? I sure hope so.
And in other news, Samsung says “Whoo Who” as it starts up production of an Android device based on the A6 processor that Apple had made there.
You sound as though you think that changing chip suppliers is as easy as changing your socks. I believe that Apple is working full speed to cut Samsung’s nuts off. Next stop , partnering with Yahoo and doing the same to Google.
It is a lot easier for Apple than most others because the bought P A Semiconductor and design and develop their own chips. One day, Apple will buy the chip manufacturing company too.
So yes, Apple controls that part of their future.
Apple does not control the process for making chips, that is the roadblock. It great that they control the design but making those puppies is a different matter.
Apple had better use a processor that is at least as fast and as efficient as those made by Samsung. It would be a disaster to use a chip that had lower performance.
The chips are designed by Apple and manufactured by a supplier. It’s not like HP ordering off the shelf Intel chips and then deciding to switch to AMD.
Maybe we can hope that Fat Boy Kim will lob a nuke into Samdung’s head office?
That’s what I was thinking first day of the recent North Korea amping of hostilities. Some good COULD come out of this if they would only cripple Samsung’s manufacturing base (& the CEO’s office) and leave everything else alone. Just a thought, not necessarily a real wish.
Likewise. Seems like some idiots thought I was actually being serious about the idea!
I’m an idiot. :). Sorry, it just isn’t funny.
You need some perspective… Fuckin’ sociopath.
@Tom F*cktard
Maybe they can nuke your sorry ass instead motherf*cker.
Idiot
Wishing a nuke upon anyone is simply in horrible taste.
… of the “disappointing iPhone sales” reported earlier? Why would Reuters report sales of a product as “disappointing” unless someone WERE disappointed? As in … Samsung is disappointed that two of their profit lines have been seriously eroded!
Thank you for being cl(e)ar, Mr. Kim.
I love how these idiots at Samsung seem to be surprised that they are losing more and more of Apple’s business. What exactly did they really think was going to happen?
Perhaps the saying “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you” isn’t used in South Korea?
It isn’t used.
Samsung:
Short term thinking, long term disaster.
Well done, unimaginative parasites.
unfortunately you have no idea how big Samsung is. apple profit is only after 2007 iphone release. apple business depends on idevices sale not mac or anything. so if something would go wrong, apple will perish all of sudden. apple doesn’t have any alternate way to make money. however Samsung has many different sectors like construction, insurance, TV, auto industry, electronics, and so on. they have many resources to make money even something would fail. A7 chip development doesn’t affect on Samsung performance anyway. as a matter of fact, Apple doesn’t have any manufacture to produce mass of A7 in the future. they still depend on contract like Faxcon or something. this kind of way is always reached to limit. honestly Samsung is way big player to make processor or any part for mobile or PC in the world. as I said, their business is various. apple is not. who will win later? you will see. by the way I wonder why apple don’t release world market share on mac? they only release US only even I know it is always around 3-4% which is so pathetic. overprice piece of shit.
as usual, your OPINION, just as is your ass hole, is full of shit; however, TY for stopping by to defecate
as usual, blow me
happy trails
Now Apple is going to put the pain on Samsung. Not with lawsuits but with cutting Samsung out of its business entirely.
Samsung put themselves in this position by copying and then selling product that wasn’t there’s to sell. Now there will be no copying because they won’t see what Apple develops until after Apple has it out on the market.
Wishful thinking.
Samsung NEVER had anything to do with development. Only with manufacturing. And now this may be gone.
I know like many Apple fans I’ve grown impatient that Samsung is still as intertwined with iOS device production as it is today.
But the day is steadily arriving when Apple will exact its full revenge. It just takes time to cook the sweetest, most delicious dishes.
I always get a bit irritated when people say that Apple doesn’t play nice with its rivals. I call such B.S. on that. It worked hand in hand with Microsoft in the early days (then got screwed over). It worked closely with Google (screwed over) and it brought billions of dollars to Samsung (screwed over yet again).
To me, Apple is the eccentric artist always used and scorned by its partners. Whether you’re a person or a company, that’s the sort of thing that sticks with you, becomes part of your DNA and motivates you to stick your middle finger at the world when you must.
Apple is leaving Samsung, and it’s not going to forget its toothbrush on the way out.
Been boycotting Samsung and Google for a while now. Not buying stuff from the evil axis.
No more free ride for those IP thieves!
About a year ago I wrote to Apple’s investor relations department expressing my dismay as a shareholder that Apple was doing business with Samsung and urging them to cut the ties as soon as possible. I am glad to see that this is beginning to happen. Apart from bottom line business considerations, I don’t see how a company can hold its head up and respect its own integrity otherwise.
So YOU’RE the one that started this whole thing! 😉
Something does not add up.
2010: A4
2011: A5
2012: A5X, A6, A6X
2013: NOTHING
2014: A7, A7X
It’s more likely that 2013 will introduce an A7 variant and that 2014 will see the A8 — quite possibly a true 64-bit variant as about that time the iPads could need to crack the 4 GB RAM limit of a 32 bit implementation.
I like your perspective – 2013 seems sweet for Apple. A7
Take it right up the stinking anal sphincter, you asstheif pieces of shit.
BLN, is that you?
LOL 1!!
Thanks for your contribution to the postings x. Really added a lot to my understanding of the situation.
One recommendation — you might like to start your own blog. I’m sure you’d get lots of readers for your insightful thoughts.
Good. But knowing the way things are somehow Samdungs shares will not dipp.
Great news! But, why do I worry that a Taiwanese company may not be any more trustworthy than a Korean company? It is past time that America starts making stuff again…not easy, I know, but we can do it!!!
‘If Samsung fails to win Apple orders for A7 chips, then some of Samsung’s system chip-manufacturing lines will be stopped. That’s a scenario Samsung really doesn’t want to see.’
Samsung: You are soooo screwed, by your own choices. You get what you give, stupid, unimaginative parasites. 😛
hahaha, you are kidding. I mean you have no idea how Samsung business affect on world economy. don’t you? you are just ignorant piece of shit.
edward, you are remarkably articulate. I defer to your superior understanding of reality and respectful communication skills not.
I’m an observer, analyst and predictor of system behavior. In this case, BFD if you think I’m correct or not. Let’s just sit back and watch karma eat Samsung alive. It’s going to be fun Fun FUN! 😀
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