Apple has reportedly entered into a contract with chipbakker TSMC to produce its socs for mobile devices. However, even Samsung in the coming years the main producer of Apple socs to continue.
That reports The Wall Street Journal, relying on sources at TSMC. From next year, would the Taiwanese chipbakker start producing soc’s for Apple, something that, incidentally, recently by Digitimes also reported. According to the American newspaper continues to however, Samsung the main supplier of Apple socs. According to The Wall Street Journal would be the contract between TSMC and Apple this month are drawn.
It is likely that TSMC won’t have enough processors can deliver. Therefore, Apple continues depending on the supply of Samsung, despite the fact that Apple and TSMC, according to the American newspaper since 2010, in conversation. Probably TSMC only enter the picture when Apple moves on to the A8 soc, while first the A7 soc is still to come. Of the A7-soc popped up this week a photo.
The production of Apple soc’s has been for some time a subject of speculation. There appeared already a few times, rumors that Apple is current producer and competitor Samsung. It was TSMC already been mentioned as a possible alternative. Managed the company from Cupertino, however, not yet to the production. Earlier, there were already noises that Apple Samsung on the side would have pushed for the production of the upcoming A7 soc, but this seems so now more nuanced.
