http://isource.com/2012/11/12/samsung-raises-price-of-ios-device-chips-by-20-report-claims/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 http://isource.com/2012/11/12/samsung-raises-price-of-ios-device-chips-by-20-report-claims/#comment-46841 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:00:00 +0000 http://isource.com/?p=58574#comment-46841 Considering that the ARM architecture is a bunch of SoC components and the A-series chips Apple has ‘designed’ is actually closer to rearranging LEGO blocks by hand than reshaping the component plastic (thus having to license the ARM architecture at all), the most Samsung could have copied would have been the rearrangement of the SoC parts. Hardly a big deal. Besides, the Apple A-series chips are optimized for the iOS and it would not make sense for Samsung to copy anything unless you see them copy iOS at the binary level in the future. Efficiencies in production for Samsung also came from their already quite extensive experience with their own tweaks on the ARM architecture. I would think it would be more costly (time/money/scale) for Apple to use a different fab-company at this time even with the 20% increase which will probably be passed on to the consumer.

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