iPhone 7 Will Have An A9 Chip Manufactured By Samsung Under A New Agreement With Apple

Although Apple has signed an agreement with TSMC for the production of A8 chips made for future terminals like iPhone 6, iPad 6 and iPad Mini 3, people at Apple have reached an agreement with Samsung to produce in 2015 A9 chips for iPhone 7, iPad 7 and iPad Mini 4.

The chip will be produced using a 14nm manufacturing process, the people at Samsung are going to use this process only in 2015. The agreement with TSMC assumed production of A8, A9 and A9X chips and switching to the main supplier of idevices chips, but Apple continues to be bound by Samsung in this regard.

Samsung Electronics had supplied the AP [application processor] to Apple since 2007 but lost the contract to supply 20 nano AP A8 chips to Apple to Taiwan’s TSMC last year when it was engaged in patent disputes with Apple. Samsung Electronics developed state-of-the-art 14 nano models ahead of its rival TSMC, regaining the order from Apple.

Although Apple has hinted that they were going to give up Apple as main producer of idevices chips, yet does not seem to be able to do this because of TSMC, or other companies which cannot produce enough more components to support production at the level required by Apple. For us matters less who exactly produce these components, but the big problem for Apple is Samsung because they have a tendency to “borrow” technology and designs from those of Cupertino.