While the fierce war between Samsung and Apple is no secret, they still seem to need each other in the mobile space. A new report says the powerful A7 chip in Apple’s latest iPhone 5S has been made by Samsung.
Having spent many hours slugging it out in courts over patent battles, Apple had decided to partner with other chip makers for future iPhone chipsets. But an inspection by Chipworks revealed that the A7, just like its predecessor is also built by Samsung. Earlier this year Apple was said to have inked a deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to produce chips in lieu of Samsung. Some reports had indeed suggested that Apple would continue using a Samsung-made chip at least for the iPhone 5s, since the two companies only decided to part ways earlier this year.
is the A7 processor build by Samsung ?
Blogger John Gruber speculates that TSMC will eventually take over the production of the A7 chip as it is set to produce Apple chips in 2014. Reportedly, the M7 "motion coprocessor" that is found in the iPhone 5S as been built by NXP Semiconductors, which is a chip fab firm located in the Netherlands. TSMC-produced chips are expected to feature in next-year's models of the iPhone as well as iPads.
The iPhone 5S features an all-new A7 chip, and it's also the world’s first smartphone with 64-bit desktop-class architecture for highly improved performance. Core iOS 7 apps have been updated to take advantage of the improvement in the chipset.
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