According to the WSJ reported that Apple has officially signed a cooperation agreement with TSMC, TSMC for the Apple iPhone and iPad production 20nm chip, delivery period beginning from 2014.
WSJ quoted a senior source said TSMC, TSMC has signed a cooperation agreement with Apple, start from 2014 for Apple foundry TSMC 20nm A-series SoC, the main supply of the new generation of Apple's iPhone and iPad. Before delivery at TSMC, Apple A-series processors behalf of the business is still South Korea's Samsung Electronics.
Back in 2010 Apple began with TSMC foundry negotiations for the iPhone and iPad looking for a new chip generation business. Apple is rumored to raise capital TSMC, TSMC must set aside part of the production capacity dedicated user of Apple's chip, TSMC take into account to keep the company operating and maintaining an independent production flexibility, refused to cooperate with the apple. After several years of negotiations, the two companies co-operation agreement was finally reached, beginning in 2014 Apple will supply TSMC 20nm A-series processors, mainly for the new generation of Apple's iPhone and iPad.
Apple and TSMC aim is to reduce the supply of refined products for the Samsung dependence, so far Apple products accounted for Samsung product components are still very high, iPod, iPhone and iPad are a Samsung processor chip manufacturing, new Samsung iPad still some product configuration screen.
