that Samsung Electronics Apple reduced orders in order to reduce the impact of its chip business, hoping to serve more chip manufacturers, Samsung has on the business with Sony, NVIDIA talks, Amazon is one of Samsung's potential customers.
Amazon Kindle series is for its own tablet computer designed application processor, had been working with Texas Instruments cooperation Amazon using TI OMAP chip. Japan Sony has not been the chip manufacturer, Sony PS game console is equipped with an ARM processor.
Samsung's logic chip business in the market have a certain status, different logic chips and memory chips, logic chips is based on the logic model to read and write, to control the entire system, smart phones and tablet computer logic chips, like equipment brain.Samsung in the logic chip R & D investment is very high, in 2013 and 2014 global logic chip market growth is expected to exceed 40%, in order to seize this market opportunity, Samsung has invested a considerable scale, the part of the tradition in a loss of memory chip production line transformation a logic chip production line.
Samsung is a logic chip production set aside enough product, Samsung chip business biggest client Apple has cut orders in 2014, Samsung an engineer has said that Apple has cut chip procurement for Samsung very disappointed.
Initially, Samsung and Apple signed an agreement in 2011 for its manufacture logic chips for the iPhone and iPad products, this agreement will end in the first half of 2014.
Given Samsung competition between mobile devices, Apple cut the 2014 production of the product components for Samsung purchases, including cutting chip orders. According to IC Insights report shows that in 2012 Samsung custom chip business revenue was $ 4.33 billion, which comes with Apple's revenues of $ 3.8 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 89% of Samsung this business. Apple cut orders for Samsung's chip business is very large, forcing Samsung must find new customers.
However, science and technology newly reported that, Sony is the Samsung foundry cast film career in the competitive relationship between the two sides, it is not without doubt.Amazon's Tablet PC came with three new models recently, it does not necessarily orders to Samsung, follow-up is still worth watching.
