“It’s being reported in Korea today that Taiwan’s TSMC has won the battle against Samsung Electronics and will produce the iPhone 7’s 10-nano application processors,” Jack Purcer reports for Patently Apple. “The news comes by way of semiconductor IP and EDA industries. These sources confirm that Apple has entrusted TSMC with all production of next 10-nano AP called ‘A10.’ TSMC is planning to enter a state of mass-production starting from June.”
“A high-ranking executive in EDA industry stated that “TSMC has taken all of Apple’s supplies in 10-nano and such plans were already confirmed in second half of last year,” which explains why HSBC was so confident in their forecast [late last year],” Purcher reports. “Now, Samsung Electronics has entered a state of emergency system to prevent declination of rate of operation of factories, claims the report.”
Purcher reports, “The report further noted that ‘It is also important for Samsung Electronics to plan out high-intensity innovations so that it can take back Apple’s supplies in 7-nano. But for now, it’s all bad news for Samsung and it’s going to be hard to be profitable in 2016 without Apple’s orders for the A10.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: Gee, that’s too bad.
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