“TSMC, the world’s top contract chip maker, said on Friday it would invest an additional T$500 billion ($15.9 billion) in a central Taiwan factory making advanced chips,” Faith Hung and Michael Gold report for Reuters.
“No other details of the project were available,” Hung and Gold report. “TSMC supplies chips to Apple Inc.”
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iCal this. TSMC will make the A9 chip. The shysters will relentlessly say that Samsung has won the business, until the first teardown. Then it will be some of the business went to TSMC. Like the A8 no chip made by Samsung will be found.
you’re wrong
There’s always room for hope, and jello. Hopefully, with time, ShameShite’s contracts with Apple will end and other companies, like TSMC will take over and run with them.
TSMC is manufacturing the A8.
Sounds like Samsung will get the larger manufacturing percentage of the A9. (This years new chip)
The $16 B upgrade will be for a year out from now.
TSMC could get most of the A10.
that’s what i was thinking as well after reading the news about their new massive investment