“Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities issued a note to investors on Wednesday, a copy of which was obtained by AppleInsider, revealing that Apple has apparently made what he called a ‘last-minute decision to recruit TSMC,'” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.
“Apple is said to have called an audible after partner GlobalFoundries continued to experience poor yield rates on production of the next-generation CPU,” Hughes reports. “Specifically, GlobalFoundries’ ‘A9’ chip yield rate is said to currently be at about 30 percent yield rate, which is well below what Kuo said is a mass-production ‘basic requirement’ of 50 percent.”
Hughes reports, “Multiple reports have indicated that Samsung will build the majority of ‘A9’ processors for Apple’s next-generation iPhone.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Who’s stamping out Apple A9 SoCs and at what percentages changes seemingly by the minute.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Lynn Weiler” and “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
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Of all the terrible rumors this one has to be the dumbest year in and year out. It seems to flip between Samsung and TSMC at least half a dozen times each year, and nobody really knows until the teardowns.
Samsung in the picture, no matter what. Samsung will supply the largest portion. The uncertain part is who else?
there were rumors that it might be IBM’s new chip fabrication plant in Bedford Hills, but I doubt it will be ready in time.
This appeared when all the rumors about who was making chips for Apple started. 🖖😀⌚️
Who Makes Chips for Apple?
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2015/04/no-one-seems-to-know-who-won-apples-iphone-chip-business.html
Kind of like Abbot & Costello ‘Who’s on first?’ 🖖😀⌚️
What endless BS hearsay.
Silicon manufacturing is nothing about “last minute decisions”.
Testing examplaires of A9 and A9X were produced in December, and who and what and at what percentages is going to manufactured, was decided around then.
Now, only three months before mass production, such decisions are not made.
The reason why there is so much uncertainty is that Samsung always ensures that the rumour mill says that they are stamping out all of Apple’s chips right from the outset, but in reality, the chips found in actual Apple devices often turn out to have not been made by Samsung after all.
The only thing that matters is which chips are put inside Apple devices. False rumours are worth even less than bragging rights.
You have to consider the sources of these rumors – it’s usually financial analysts – the sole purpose of this is to manipulate stock prices for their clients. These people should be forced to show evidence and be held accountable for their “facts and checks” should they turn out to be false.
Pringles makes their chips in-house. They get like 98%+ yield rate.
… but have you noticed, even if you have a pack of Pringles where every single one is intact, there is still some bits of broken Pringle inside the pack, which were never part of any of the Pringles in that pack ?
My guess is that they chuck in a bit of Pringle debris to make up the weight to the correct amount.
Pringle-gate!
Those crumbs are a marketing tool, converting the satisfied consumer’s shirt into a billboard.
Ming the Merciless.