Samsung’s 14nm in mass production?

[user_2013101]

Bernstein Research, who previously proclaimed that Samsung is the primary supplier of A9s, now said TSMC will produce 70% of A9s. Details below:

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/f302/buying-opportunity-tsm-5690-post19841.html#post19841

 

[IanD]

Since you're doing duplicate posts on multiple threads, I'll do the same... ;-)

I'd take anything like this from analysts with a huge pinch of salt; not only do we not know what their motives for such a statement are (talking up investments?), anyone who says that the same chip can be made in Samsung and TSMC "so that regular end users can't tell" is smoking something pretty strong -- the processes are different in both density and performance, it would take two separate designs and layouts and the chips would end up with different speed (TSMC faster?) and power (Samsung lower?). I don't think even Apple would do two separate developments for the same chip in two different processes -- A9 in one and A9x in the other, very possibly -- A9 in both, very unlikely.

Bernstein Research, who previously proclaimed that Samsung is the primary supplier of A9s, now said TSMC will produce 70% of A9s. Details below:

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/f302/buying-opportunity-tsm-5690-post19841.html#post19841

 

[Andrei]

Samsung for Apple: Samsung Said to Win Apple A9 Chip Orders for Next IPhone - Bloomberg Business

But most people knew that already.

What is interesting is Chipworks is hinting the 7420 may be partly produced by Globalfoundries: Inside the Samsung Galaxy S6 | Chipworks Blog

The die size is also only 78mm², a great shrink from 110mm² on the 5433 and still managing to add two GPU clusters into the SoC.