Let's see, Samsung make nearly all the mobile processors Apple uses and they make most of the processors used in their own phones, except those sold in the US. Samsung sales of phones worldwide in 2013 are projected by Gartner to be 300M and yet we have these amazing graphs in this article suggesting Apple is making more revenue from phone processors than Samsung.
I don't believe it. Although Samsung uses Qualcomm processors in some models, they may well be actually making those chips themselves. In 2012 it was announced that TMSC couldn't make enough so Qualcomm were turning to Samsung to help the out.
So Samsung are making chips for Themselves, Apple and Qualcomm. They must be giving them away free to Apple and Qualcomm for this article to be true.
Foundry is different from designer. The article is reporting designer revenues. The figures refer to how much money apple would have made by selling is chips to apple's iPhone or ipad division. That makes sense.
Yes, they've been doing it for a long time. In fact, they used to license ARM designs for the XScale mobile processors, which became the standard CPU for Windows CE/Windows Mobile PDAs and phones.
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"Strategy Analytics classifies Apple as a fabless semiconductor company"
I remember a long time ago when Apple was fab.
Let's see, Samsung make nearly all the mobile processors Apple uses and they make most of the processors used in their own phones, except those sold in the US. Samsung sales of phones worldwide in 2013 are projected by Gartner to be 300M and yet we have these amazing graphs in this article suggesting Apple is making more revenue from phone processors than Samsung.
I don't believe it. Although Samsung uses Qualcomm processors in some models, they may well be actually making those chips themselves. In 2012 it was announced that TMSC couldn't make enough so Qualcomm were turning to Samsung to help the out.
So Samsung are making chips for Themselves, Apple and Qualcomm. They must be giving them away free to Apple and Qualcomm for this article to be true.
Does DED head work for Strategy Analytics now?
Intel does mobile processors?
Yes, they've been doing it for a long time. In fact, they used to license ARM designs for the XScale mobile processors, which became the standard CPU for Windows CE/Windows Mobile PDAs and phones.