Apple And Samsung Join Forces For iPhone 7 — forbes.com

Following reports at the end of last year that Samsung’s manufacturing plant in Austin was working on the early batches of A9 system-on-chips (SoC) for the presumptively named Apple iPhone 7, it appears that the South Korean manufacturer will be the lead manufacturer for most, if not all, of the SoC components for Tim Cook’s next-generation smartphone. One of Samsung’s key advantages in the process is its mastery of fabrication at 14nm (reports Re/Code, citing sources familiar with the matter). This allows more transistors to be packed into a smaller space, all while drawing less power. The attractiveness of those benefits for any smartphone should be clear.

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