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`Apple to rely on Samsung chips for iPhone, iPad into 2015
`iPhone makes up about 60 percent of Apple's revenue. Though arch-rival
`Samsung's smartphone unit is struggling, it still wouldn't turn down providing its
`chips to Apple.
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`By Zack Whittaker for Between the Lines | January 26, 2015 -- 13:09 GMT (05:09 PST) | Topic: Mobility
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`Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus both run chips made by Samsung (Image: CNET)
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`Samsung will continue to be Apple's supplier of processors for its iPhones smartphones and iPad
`tablets, according to sources within the chip-making industry.
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`A report from one prominent South Korean newspaper, via Reuters, said the rival electronics giant will
`be responsible for around 75 percent of the chip production of the next iPhone.
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`Samsung will reportedly make the chips from its factory in Austin, Texas, the report said.
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`Financial terms for the arrangement were not disclosed.
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`News first emerged about two years ago that Samsung would supply iPhone chips for its upcoming A9
`processor. The current iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus come with the latest A8 chip, with an embedded
`motion-tracking microprocessor. The next iPhone is expected to be released later this September.
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`Over the years, Apple has pushed hard to decrease its reliance on third-party companies for its iPhone
`and iPad components. iPhone alone makes up about 60 percent of the company's revenues.
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`Though Apple relies on Samsung for its chips, the relationship has been fraught -- with Apple bringing a
`slew of litigation against the South Korean giant for alleged patent infringement.
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`As Samsung's contract to provide chips to Apple expires in 2014, the company was already preparing
`to hike its chip prices by 20 percent to its Cupertino, Calif.-based customer just months before securing
`the A9 chip contract, amid the height of its courtroom conflicts.
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`The question remains over which company is providing Apple with the remaining 25 percent of the chips
`-- which some have speculated could in fact be Apple itself.
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`There's been little as of late out of the "special projects" department run by former Apple hardware chief
`Bob Mansfield, who went on to retire but was brought back to head up the secretive division that reports
`directly to chief executive Tim Cook.
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`Mansfield is charged with bringing the firm's semiconductor and chip-making efforts in-house, among
`other things. The company also in the past year and a half hired former Samsung and AMD chip
`veteran Jim Mergard, in an effort to bolster its internal chip-building division under Mansfield.
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`If Apple continues to rely on Samsung for its chip-making effort, that suggests Apple's own in-house
`chip-building work isn't going so well. Or, if the cost-benefit is that Samsung does a better job -- albeit for
`a profit -- so be it. But no doubt as tensions continue between the two companies, there remains a
`mutually-assured destruction policy. Samsung could drop its biggest rival in an icy lake for a massive
`profit dip, but the deal generates too much cash for the Korean giant to ignore.
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