“Key component partner and fierce rival Samsung has reportedly wedged its way back into Apple’s supply chain for the next iPhone, as the South Korean company will allegedly be one of three companies supplying dynamic random-access memory for the ‘iPhone 6,'” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Samsung was actually cut out of Apple’s DRAM business starting with the iPhone 5 and carrying over to the iPhone 5s, according to analyst Timothy Arcuri of Cowen and Company,” Hughes reports. “But for the ‘iPhone 6,’ Samsung has been reportedly brought back into the fold, he said in a note to investors on Monday.”
Hughes reports, “Other DRAM suppliers for Apple’s next-generation iPhone are said to be Micron and Elpida.”
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