Although until now I have heard enough times that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), is ready to give up Samsung for TSMC in terms of chip manufacturing A7 which would follow to arrive in future terminals iPhone, a publication from South Korea wants to bring the subject back to our attention. In a recent article, the Koreans bring back the fact that Apple would implement a chip A7 in the iPhones that would arrive on the market next year, and those from Samsung would have been excluded from the production process, the Taiwanese from TSMC being chosen in their place.
The chasm between Samsung Electronics and Apple is expected to widen further as the US electronics giant has excluded its Korean rival from a project to develop A7 application processors, due to be released in the first half of next year. Apple is sharing confidential data for its next A7 system-on-chip (SoC) with the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). TSMC has begun ordering its contractors to supply equipment to produce Apple's next processors using a finer 20-nanometer level processing technology.
In the absence of the billions of dollars that Apple would now send to Taiwan, those from Samsung hope that Nvidia will contract them to produce a series of graphic chips, probably also for mobile terminals. The A7 chip would be produced using a 20nm manufacturing process, but if Apple will include it in iDevices only from next year, then probably iPhone 5S, iPad 5 si iPad Mini 2 they will have the same A6 but slightly modified. Regardless of what chips we'll see in new iDevices this year, it's clear that Apple is actively looking to separate itself from Samsung.
