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Rumor: A9 processor production underway, Samsung could handle 100% of orders

Despite years of legal acrimony between Apple and Samsung, there’s still money to be made in processor manufacturing. Per 9to5Mac and Korea’s Electronic Times, industry insiders have stated that Samsung Electronics began production of Appleā€™s A9 in the Austin plant in the US using the 14nm FinFET technology. Samsung has production lines capable of FinFET […]

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Rumor: Apple, Samsung sign deal for Samsung to build A9 chips for 2015 iOS devices

From friends to litigants to partners again… Per MacRumors and the Korea Economic Daily, Apple and Samsung on Sunday officially signed an agreement that will see the two companies working together on future A-series chips for Apple’s iOS devices, with the deal specifically covering A9 chips based on a 14-nanometer process node starting in 2015. […]

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SanDisk claims world’s smallest 128-gigabit flash chip

It may not change the world today, but it could lead to some pretty cool stuff. Per Electronista, electronics maker SanDisk set a record today after the company claimed to have the world’s smallest 128-gigabit (16GB) memory chip. The 19 nanometer, three-bit-per-cell storage has a footprint of about 170mm square (0.26in square), or less than […]