Report says that Apple is replacing Samsung with Unimicron to produce Ax chips

5. quakan posted on 26 Dec 2012, 23:43 4 1

Everything is done globally now, are you just now finding this out?

18. MeoCao (unregistered) posted on 27 Dec 2012, 04:13 1 1

I think what Apple is doing now is too late, Apple massive orders helped SS to have their own supply chain as a foundation for it's wildly successful mobile business. Without Apple's orders SS would have had a lot more difficulties to get to this point.

Now SS supply chain has become so strong and Apple's orders withdrawal cannot harm SS, but it on the other hand may severely affect Apple's own supply chain both in price and quality.

Another fiasco of Apple Maps caliber for Tim Cook is brewing?

14. AnTuTu posted on 27 Dec 2012, 02:41 5 2

and customers gonna replace Apple with Samsung...!!!

19. dan86 posted on 27 Dec 2012, 04:49 2 0

Expect more creepy iDevices now with mediocre chinese standard!

24. Droiddoes posted on 27 Dec 2012, 12:58 2 0

I hope it does. I hope these unimicrom or wtf ever cheap chinese crap chips they are fail hard and cost them millions in lost revenue/warranty issues. Serves them right for sh*tting on the folks that basically make the iNovelties (Samsung)

7. roscuthiii posted on 27 Dec 2012, 00:28 1 1

You're special.

11. Berzerk000 posted on 27 Dec 2012, 00:48 7 1

Yeah, no. Samsung has always been the number 1 mobile chip producer in terms of power. The only company that could beat them is Intel, but that'll be a few years down the road, if at all.

29. rusticguy posted on 27 Dec 2012, 14:20 0 0

So if sales aren't good Apple has one more shoulder to fire their propaganda gun (a mechanism to fool) from ... chip supplier has yield problems supplies are short :)

15. shuaibhere posted on 27 Dec 2012, 03:22 2 0

Why not in other way???
Apple doesn't bite the hand which gave them almost every internal part of iphone....

16. AnTuTu posted on 27 Dec 2012, 03:48 4 0

gallitoking:- Sorry to say mate but you are totally f**ked up in your fruit world...!!

17. Berzerk000 posted on 27 Dec 2012, 04:10 3 0

The iPhone wouldn't be the same without Samsung. Without Samsung, the iPhone wouldn't be as smooth as we all know it to be because Samsung is top dog when it comes to mobile processors. That was the biggest argument for Apple fans debate against Android, that it wasn't as fast as the iPhone.

The entire reason why probably more than half of the iPhone users use the iPhone is because it's fluid, and it's fluid BECAUSE of Samsung. The reason the iPhone even works is because of Samsung. The reason you can see anything on the iPhone is because of LG (and a few others I believe), the reason you take such good pictures with the iPhone is because of Sony. The reason you can store those pictures, and all your apps and such is because of Samsung.

Sure, Apple could have replaced each of those manufacturers with someone else, but would it have been as good as it was? Not even close.

Think of it this way, now Samsung has more room to produce its own Exynos chips to keep up with the demand for the upcoming GS4. The iPhone won't be as fluid, and Samsung can make more supply for all those who switch over, everyone wins ;)

25. Droiddoes posted on 27 Dec 2012, 13:00 2 0

Look, I get that you have a crippling learning disability and I am very sorry you have to deal with that, but you do understand that apple is the one that killed the relationship right? I mean, not even you could possibly be that deluded. Also you missed a comma and a period, some day you will be able to form a sentence.
Some day...

30. rusticguy posted on 27 Dec 2012, 14:23 1 0

It will because it's not that Apple has got patent to produce smartphones .. not yet at least although that's what Thermonuclear crap was aimed at ... so whoever has the capacity to make phones will make phones ... and Apple wil be playing game of musical chairs hopping from one to another untill they run out of all chairs :D

20. redmd posted on 27 Dec 2012, 05:22 1 0

many have switched to S3 and note 2 from iphones. I can attest to that.

26. Droiddoes posted on 27 Dec 2012, 13:02 1 0

This. Hopefully they spend less time dealing with apples BS litigation and general whining and can do what they do even better: making products that outclass iNovelties in every way.

27. Droiddoes posted on 27 Dec 2012, 13:03 0 0

It would be nice but it won't happen. apple loves money and overcharging people, they are not going to tap into that $700 billion they have sitting in the bank. Cheap chinese labor is their bread and butter.

31. jaytai0106 posted on 28 Dec 2012, 13:48 0 0

I agree with that, but they can just start their own factories in China.