It's said that Samsung will be responsible for about 75 percent of the chip production for the next iPhone. Samsung will make the chips from its factory in Austin, Texas, according to the report. But it did not say how much the contract is worth or what other company will be supplying Apple.
According to industry analysts, competitors of Samsung and GlobalFoundries have had difficulty moving to the smaller architecture, which is expected to shrink the size of chips by 15 percent while increasing processing speed 20 percent and cutting power consumption by 35 percent. The potential to share manufacturing output could give the two companies a leg up because businesses such as Apple place a high priority on having the capacity to react to market demand.
Chipworks is no exception: here are some of the surprising moves Apple did with the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Apple states the A8 chip incorporates 2 billion transistors; despite being 13% smaller than its predecessor, the A7. The guys from Chipworks were able to grab a shot of the memory part of the package-on-packed (PoP) ?? the actual A8 chip is underneath that package.
