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Speculation that Apple will reportedly conclude cooperation with the Asian chip manufacturer TSMC, we could hear practically since last summer. The well-known foreign portal DigiTimes came up with a claim today, according to which the company had Apple these days to actually make an agreement with TSMC, which should produce new processors for the company's mobile devices as part of this agreement Apple. Apple are trying to go as far as possible according to the new agreements and according to the magazine they should have the first chips Apple Discover the A8 in early 2014.

The new mobile processors should be very small indeed, and as DigiTimes claims, Apple demands from TSMC that the new processors be manufactured using 20-nanometer, 16-nanometer and 10-nanometer technological processes. The Taiwanese company should start production of the first prototypes of the chip Apple A8 already during July / July, while mass production will not start until December / December. These processors should be part of a mobile phone that is to be introduced early next year, it will probably be iPhone with a larger display. But at the end of the third quarter, TSMC should start production of the A9 and A9X chips, making it possible that the new iPad models and iPhone they will be introduced in fall / autumn 2014. The Taiwanese manufacturer should produce the new processors in halls 4, 5 and 6 at the Fab 14 factory in southern Taiwan.

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It has been expected for a long time that Apple will probably abandon cooperation with Samsung and decide to produce mobile processors at rival TSMC. This expectation is primarily due to long-standing patent litigation between Approm and Samsung and it seems Apple already today it is abandoning the production of important computersonentov by other manufacturers. The exception is the new generation MacBook Air, which offers super-fast Flash storage from Samsung. The specifications of the new processors are highly debatable. While some claims say that new iOS devices will offer dual-core processors, other claims say that TSMC will be in charge of producing quad-core processors Apple Ax.

Apple has been offering its own processors since 2010. The first Apple And the processor debuted in March of that year, when the company introduced the first generation iPad with the processor Apple A4. This processor is also found in iPhone 4, the fourth generation iPod touch. A year later, the company prepared a dual-core model with the designation Apple A5, which can be found in a large number of devices today. Specifically, it is the iPad 2, iPad mini, iPhone 4S and iPod touch 5th generation. Because of Retina display in last year's iPad models, modified its processors and offered them in variantoch A5X and A6X. The only device that contains a processor today Apple A6, is iPhone 5.

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*Source: DigiTimes

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