Samsung makes Apple’s A5 system-on-a-chip in a Texas factory. The Korean manufacturer has in the Texan capital Austin is a factory stand, which is 3.6 billion dollar cost, and only since the beginning of this month at full speed.
The factory covers an area of about nine football fields and is almost entirely dedicated to making A5 chips, so reports Reuters on the basis of welingevoerde sources. There would be 1100 employees, that the production of 40,000 wafers per month have to maintain. Samsung and Apple wanted nothing to lose about the plant, which is in the Texan capital Austin.
It is remarkable that the factory in the United States is placed. Many of Apples components are in Asia, where production is much cheaper and can. For example, the company from Cupertino contracts with Foxconn to assemble iPhones.
Samsung also produced the Apple A4, the predecessor of the A5. However, it is possible that the Korean manufacturer’s newer chips may not produce; Apple would negotiations have been with the Taiwanese TSMC. Samsung and Apple have long been embroiled in a worldwide legal battle, in which both parties sell each other’s mobile devices try to ban. According to rumors, Apple only with TSMC in the sea if the manufacturer have enough chips per wafer, which is able to produce. But Samsung would still be in the race for a contract.