Samsung to manufacture Apple's A9 chip (for the next iPhone)

There's been a lot of talk about who would manufacture Apple's A9 chip (which will power the company's 2015 iPhone and iPad line-ups), with TSMC, Samsung, and GlobalFoundries all mentioned as possible makers of the new SoC. Bloomberg now has it that Samsung has won A9 chip orders from Apple, with additional orders going to GlobalFoundries, which is a Samsung partner. This means that TSMC, also known as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, will probably not secure any orders from the Cupertino giant this year (unlike in 2013, when it sealed a deal to produce most of Apple's A8 chips).



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