designed by apple--made by samsung

[alocispepraluger102]

LINK

"It's not a surprise. The A5 chip—the brain of the iPhone 4S—is also made by Samsung. But in the current polarized climate of the Apple-Samsung Wars, it's worth remembering that the show goes on and the new iPhone 5's brain is made by Samsung too.

iFixit put the chip under an electron microscope and took some neat images of the processor.

The A6 is labeled APL0589B01 inside and, according to iFixit, it is manufactured by Samsung in their 32-nanometer CMOS process factory. It measures 9.7 x 9.97 millimeters. Designed entirely by Apple, it has dual ARM cores and three PowerVR graphic cores. iFixit claims that the ARM core blocks "were laid out manually-as in, by hand.""

[Christiern]

What is your point?

[.:.impossible]

Display is made by Sharp, LG, and the Sony/Hitachi conglomerate. None of this is news. These are not new suppliers.

Edited September 28, 2012 by .:.impossible

[BERIGAN]

Well, news to me, and after all, isn't that all that matters?

I wonder if Samsung has thought of charging a bit more, to make up for the lawsuit?

[alocispepraluger102]

Well, news to me, and after all, isn't that all that matters?

I wonder if Samsung has thought of charging a bit more, to make up for the lawsuit?

surely samsung copped the design when making the chips.

in 20 years these cheap phones will be blase and sold in dollar stores for $3.98. our fancies will have, by then, moved on to our remote driven cars, hovercraft, robotic pets, robotic kids, robotic lovers, or something......

homo sapiens are fickle pickles.

Edited October 1, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[GregK]

You could add, "innovation by Google/ Android, stolen by Apple a year later"...

[Christiern]

If you don't think Steve Jobs was a visionary, check out this response he made to a Q&A that followed one of his 1983 speeches:

"Apple’s strategy is really simple. What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes. That’s what we want to do and we want to do it this decade," says Jobs. "And we really want to do it with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything and you’re in communication with all of these larger databases and other computers."

iPad, anyone?