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Has something changed since Apple fabbed the A9 with Samsung?

• macintux 6y ago
  Did they? I see reports at the time claiming that would be the case, but more recent sources indicate it never happened, that TSMC has been Apple's sole supplier since 2015.
  • rubatuga 6y ago
    No, there were two chips in the iPhones and one had significantly worse battery life
• ksec 6y ago
  That was around the time when Apple has started to look at their SoC as a competitive advantage. Before then TSMC wasn't even a name Mainstream Media would report or use. But moving foundry takes a very long time and planning. You are talking about ~150M unit of leading edge node( excluding Intel ). TSMC also had to bet and build a new Fab just for Apple. And the rest is history. Samsung talked about Firewall between Samsung Electronics and Foundry, but knowing the Korean culture and Samsung, that wouldn't be much of a good idea. I would even bet Foxconn CEO Terry Gou had a few word of advance to his friend Tim Cook.