Anonymous Samsung executive denies the report of a 20% price hike on chips sold to Apple

0. phoneArena posted on 14 Nov 2012, 15:52

A couple of days ago, Korean publication Chosun Ilbo said that Samsung was raising its price on Apple's AX line of processors, produced by the Korean firm, by 20%; on Wednesday, another Korean publication, The Hankyoreh, cites an anonymous Samsung executive as denying that the price increase ever took place...

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1. gallitoking posted on 14 Nov 2012, 17:19 2 13

Damm Samsung products are average at best but they do know how to make chips... ohh well.. is time to move on

7. PhenomFaz posted on 15 Nov 2012, 03:39 2 0

either you're a noob or you haven't used the Galaxy Note II mate!

9. anywherehome posted on 15 Nov 2012, 05:04 1 0

nicely brain-washed by Apple, and what will you say to this youtube link?
goo [dot] gl/ZuTmL
and features you will never have:
android [dot] com/whatsnew/
? ;)

2. lyndon420 posted on 14 Nov 2012, 18:41 8 0

Too bad...I was really hoping this was true.

8. PhenomFaz posted on 15 Nov 2012, 03:42 0 0

and only 20% hike...i think they should've outright doubled their prices for Apple considering how Apple literally robs consumers of hard earned money and makes its employees "the apple geniuses" dance in the streets like monkeys on launch day...thats just degradation of humans in society!

3. MeoCao (unregistered) posted on 14 Nov 2012, 18:54 1 0

Apple can't use shifting to TSMC to "punish" SS b-c in chip manufacturing capacity falls behind demand, so Apple is in weaker position.

Instead SS can punish Apple for the dirty game they are playing.

And they should!

6. E.N. posted on 14 Nov 2012, 23:25 0 0

Great job in trying to spin this to be great news for Samsung, but at the end of the day they're losing a major customer.

4. maxout posted on 14 Nov 2012, 19:40 0 0

even if they did... thats Samsung product.. they have right to increase or decrease the price of their product as the wish.. there is no law...for this.. Karma is ____.

5. gallitoking posted on 14 Nov 2012, 20:30 0 1

not if there is a contract and a serious company like Samsung and Apple do have contracts.. so no Karma here

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