Samsung strikes a deal with Apple to manufacture 7nm A12 chipsets

18 July 2017
The 2018 iPhone will be the first in five years with a Samsung-built chipset.

Sort by:

Anonymous, 19 Jul 20172019 - Apple iPhone 9 - Designed by Apple - Made by Samsung LOLOLhow original samsung are ...

    • ?
    • Anonymous
    • IV8
    • 19 Jul 2017

    2019 - Apple iPhone 9 - Designed by Apple - Made by Samsung LOLOL

      • m
      • mark
      • PMa
      • 19 Jul 2017

      AnonD-563937, 18 Jul 2017next ... samsung strikes deal to build iphones ...... sams... moreIt only means that Samsung needs apple to make a profit. ..

        • m
        • mark
        • PMa
        • 19 Jul 2017

        techguy, 18 Jul 2017Samsung need to buy Apple and shut down the whole company ... moreapple is worth $750billion by market cap. while Samsung is only $200-400billion by market cap.

          • A
          • Anonymous
          • 4S2
          • 19 Jul 2017

          AnonD-558092, 19 Jul 2017Ah, Samsung. They just know how to make profit. Mist of the... moreWithout other manufacturers, they can't do it by themselves much like apple.

            • D
            • AnonD-558092
            • r7b
            • 19 Jul 2017

            Ah, Samsung. They just know how to make profit. Mist of the next iPhone will be Samsung-made. Maybe all of it with some bundle rebate.

            They do everything. Cameras, storage, display, RAM, CPUs, batteries (now available without explosion mode)... That's how they've got enough money to build themselves an actual city with absolutely everything you'd expect in an important city.

              • D
              • AnonD-680785
              • tZk
              • 19 Jul 2017

              Anonymous, 19 Jul 2017if Microsoft was not successful in burying Nokia totally ev... moreOopps, Apple is in 3rd place now.. Huawei is 2nd

                • D
                • AnonD-558092
                • r7b
                • 19 Jul 2017

                RaDeon, 18 Jul 20177nm means less heating while running heavy games in high gr... moreIt's far more than this. A smaller process does mean that the heat generated for a same work is greatly reduced compared to a bigger process (say, 10nm), but you can also reduce the size of the CPU die, which means you can pack more stuff in your devices. It also means you can have more transistors and a higher clock rate, both of this meaning better performance.

                  • ?
                  • Anonymous
                  • kD@
                  • 19 Jul 2017

                  AnonD-683214, 18 Jul 2017Why? It's a very smart move for Samsung. Samsung now not on... moreWow your so smart. Can you please tell me in details how they get a profit into it. ( Sarcasm included )

                    • m
                    • mark
                    • PMa
                    • 19 Jul 2017

                    techguy, 18 Jul 2017Samsung need to buy Apple and shut down the whole company ... moreget your facts straight "Apple (AAPL, Tech30) is now worth about three quarters of a trillion dollars: $750 billion. Apple's market cap is $160 billion higher than the second most valuable company in the U.S. Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL, Tech30) is worth about $590 billion."

                    source:forbes

                    "Apple AAPL +0.31% took the top spot in the tech group weeks after shares hit a new record high, reaching over $147 per share for the first time on May 2 despite disappointing iPhone sales. For the past year, Apple saw $217 billion in sales, $45 billion in profit, $331 billion in assets and a market cap of $752 billion.

                    Samsung "Samsung, the world's 15th-biggest company by market value as of yesterday and the first in South Korea to surpass the $200 billion mark, has jumped 40 percent this year.Dec 7, 2012"

                    souce forbes as of may 2017

                    "Yet again, South Korea-based Samsung took second place, with $174 billion in sales, $19 billion in profit, $217 billion in assets and a market cap of $254 billion. Hon Hai Precision Industry was the the only other company to break into the top 10 from the Asia-Pacific region."

                    https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinstoller/2017/05/24/the-worlds-largest-tech-companies-2017-apple-and-samsung-lead-facebook-rises/#6d8e0640d140

                      • ?
                      • Anonymous
                      • UD{
                      • 19 Jul 2017

                      techguy, 18 Jul 2017Samsung need to buy Apple and shut down the whole company ... moreif Microsoft was not successful in burying Nokia totally even with its dead sales for many years, Samsung ain't gonna be able to that with Apple even if Apple is just 2nd in the list for MobileMarket, Apple right now has bigger value and not Samsung

                        • ?
                        • Anonymous
                        • 7t7
                        • 19 Jul 2017

                        AnonD-563937, 18 Jul 2017next ... samsung strikes deal to build iphones ...... sams... moreSo true!

                          • D
                          • AnonD-135930
                          • 3bu
                          • 18 Jul 2017

                          AnonD-683214, 18 Jul 2017Basically in phones a major limit of CPU's is the amount of... moreAlso, the smaller the transistors and the space between each and every individual transistor, the more transistors you can fit in the same space which equals in better performance even without having to change anything rise. Changing the architecture, updating the instruction sets and other stuff they do to processors, brings additional benefits to the device.

                            • K
                            • Kangal
                            • uCX
                            • 18 Jul 2017

                            AnonD-683214, 18 Jul 2017Basically in phones a major limit of CPU's is the amount of... moreAs a rule of thumb, yes....

                            But don't forget the microarchitecture, and the software/driver at hand here too.
                            They can have drastic effects on the efficiency.
                            Not to mention other components (eg/ bandwidth) that can bottleneck a system's performance or low-power drain.

                            Individual components are nice, but usually, electronics are more than the sum of their parts.

                              Haha this is really unexpected, for good or for worse.

                                • D
                                • AnonD-683214
                                • B1K
                                • 18 Jul 2017

                                techguy, 18 Jul 2017Samsung need to buy Apple and shut down the whole company ... moreThat's now how companies work. At all.

                                  • D
                                  • AnonD-683214
                                  • B1K
                                  • 18 Jul 2017

                                  RaDeon, 18 Jul 20177nm means less heating while running heavy games in high gr... moreBasically in phones a major limit of CPU's is the amount of space in the phone to dissapate heat compared to the amount of heat created by the processor. The smaller the processor, the less metal electricity has to go through creating less electrical resistance and less heat. This means that a 7nm chip will be more thermally efficient compared to a 10nm chip. So now the chip is both more effecient and outs out less heat so the manufacturer can make a faster chip that uses the same amount of energy and creates the same amount of heat as a larger chip. Sorry that explanation was a bit messy.

                                    • D
                                    • AnonD-683214
                                    • B1K
                                    • 18 Jul 2017

                                    Anonymous, 18 Jul 2017One of the co-CEO played a key role huh? Something's weird.. Why? It's a very smart move for Samsung. Samsung now not only gets the profits from its own phones but it gets profits from it's main competitors phones. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

                                      • M
                                      • Mkdc
                                      • 5Mb
                                      • 18 Jul 2017

                                      techguy, 18 Jul 2017Samsung need to buy Apple and shut down the whole company ... moreif i were you, i'd go on google (or bing or yahoo or baidu or whatever) and search info before posting. FYI, apple is the most valuable company in the world by market cap.

                                        • i
                                        • iCrapple
                                        • Rjs
                                        • 18 Jul 2017

                                        totally agree apple steal ideas and copy products and slap their logo on it and mark up price and for ads revenues