Samsung and Apple Quadruple Application Processor Production
As Apple gadgets get much more popular-or, rather, more widespread as being a result of the company’s imminent iPhone launch through mobile carrier Verizon and the much-expected debut with the iPhone 5-someone has to create the chips that actually power the devices’ features. Apple appears keenly aware of this fact, as the company is allegedly boosting its application processor order from Samsung from 5,000 monthly sheets of chips to twenty,000.
Reviews from the Korea Times indicate that not just has Samsung signed a deal with Apple to quadruple the production rate of shipped application processors, but the transfer would task Samsung’s semiconductor divisions with creating more chips for Apple than the company’s own devices, like Samsung’s Galaxy lineup of mobile phones and tablets.
Unnamed resources talking to the Korea Occasions claim that half of Samsung’s application processor capacity will probably be devoted to chips like Apple’s A4. Samsung currently creates about 40,000 sheets of chips monthly from facilities in Giheung, Korea-and because the new agreement allegedly signifies, twenty,000 of these sheets will go toward Apple’s chips each month.
“Samsung aims to chalk up several results through the sales. For 1, it’ll be able to strengthen its non-memory company by shipping quick and low-power chips to Apple,” claims an unnamed executive in the write-up. “That’s a extremely fine-tuned technique,” he adds.
The report also signifies that Samsung is in the procedure of pumping $3.six billion in to the expansion of the fabrication plant in Austin, Texas. The plant would produce non-memory chips-”an apparent scheme to ship more of its mobile processors to Apple,” claims the article. Samsung officials haven’t officially commented on both the plant or even the alleged increase to the company’s agreement with Apple.
Samsung has been Apple’s companion in creating the application processors that power Apple gadgets for some time now, and the two businesses worked together-in a fashion–to create Apple’s A4 line of system-on-a-chips. Samsung and Intrinsity initially collaborated to produce Hummingbird, a revamp of ARM’s Cortex A8, which many consider the groundwork for Apple’s A4 processor after Apple bought Intrinsity outright in April of 2010.
As Apple gadgets get much more popular-or, rather, more widespread as being a result of the company’s imminent iPhone launch through mobile carrier Verizon and the much-expected debut with the iPhone 5-someone has to create the chips that actually power the devices’ features. Apple appears keenly aware of this fact, as the company is allegedly boosting its application processor order from Samsung from 5,000 monthly sheets of chips to twenty,000.
Reviews from the Korea Times indicate that not just has Samsung signed a deal with Apple to quadruple the production rate of shipped application processors, but the transfer would task Samsung’s semiconductor divisions with creating more chips for Apple than the company’s own devices, like Samsung’s Galaxy lineup of mobile phones and tablets.
Unnamed resources talking to the Korea Occasions claim that half of Samsung’s application processor capacity will probably be devoted to chips like Apple’s A4. Samsung currently creates about 40,000 sheets of chips monthly from facilities in Giheung, Korea-and because the new agreement allegedly signifies, twenty,000 of these sheets will go toward Apple’s chips each month.
“Samsung aims to chalk up several results through the sales. For 1, it’ll be able to strengthen its non-memory company by shipping quick and low-power chips to Apple,” claims an unnamed executive in the write-up. “That’s a extremely fine-tuned technique,” he adds.
The report also signifies that Samsung is in the procedure of pumping $3.six billion in to the expansion of the fabrication plant in Austin, Texas. The plant would produce non-memory chips-”an apparent scheme to ship more of its mobile processors to Apple,” claims the article. Samsung officials haven’t officially commented on both the plant or even the alleged increase to the company’s agreement with Apple.
Samsung has been Apple’s companion in creating the application processors that power Apple gadgets for some time now, and the two businesses worked together-in a fashion–to create Apple’s A4 line of system-on-a-chips. Samsung and Intrinsity initially collaborated to produce Hummingbird, a revamp of ARM’s Cortex A8, which many consider the groundwork for Apple’s A4 processor after Apple bought Intrinsity outright in April of 2010.
