From CNET: Samsung will challenge Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, as a supplier of processors to Apple next year, a Reuters report claims.
"TSMC will be supplanted by Samsung" for the production of next-generation 14-nanometer processors for both Apple and Qualcomm, starting sometime in the second half of 2015, Reuters reports, citing comments from KGI Securities analyst Michael Liu.
The comments were made in a research note from Liu to clients after a TSMC investor conference on Wednesday.
Until the TSMC deal, Samsung had been the exclusive supplier of processors to Apple.
During a Q&A session at the TSMC conference, analysts tried to probe TSMC's relationship with Apple, without mentioning Apple by name. One analyst, for example, referred to "one important customer."
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