South Korean company Samsung has won Apple’s contract of making 14-nanometer application processors.
The Samsung has been producing mobile chips for Apple since launch of the first iPhone in 2007, but it has lost its position somehow in recent years. Before the launch of iPhone 6, Samsung made all of Apple’s ARM processors at Austin base. But as the technology gets developed, Apple brought Samsung’s competitor chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company into the fray.
Moreover, this year’s 64-bit A8 chip is made through 20-nanometer process, which itself was a reduction from the previous A7 processor. It is claimed that smaller processors are more proficient, more power savings that result in longer battery life even as the chips themselves become more powerful and capable.
