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Samsung's New Texas Factory for A5 Chip Production Now Fully Operational
The A5 processor - the brain in the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 - is now made in a sprawling 1.6 million square feet factory in Austin owned by Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics, according to people familiar with the operation.The report's source indicates that nearly all of the factory's production, which encompasses non-memory chips such as the A5, is dedicated to Apple. The new factory is said to have resulted in 1,100 new employees being brought on by Samsung, which also employees 2,400 employees at a NAND flash memory factory in Austin.
One of the few major components to be sourced from within the United States, the A5 processor is built by Samsung in a newly constructed $3.6 billion non-memory chip production line that reached full production in early December.

Samsung factory in Austin (Source: Austin American-Statesman)
Samsung's significant investment in Austin to provide Apple with chips for the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S signals the importance the company places on the supply relationship even as the two companies are locked in a global intellectual property dispute involving Apple's iOS devices and Samsung's own Android-based mobile hardware.
Apple had been said to be moving production of its future A6 and A7 chips for iOS devices to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, but more recent reports have claimed that Apple will be sticking with Samsung for at least the A6 and that Samsung is already ramping up production of the A6 at the Austin facility.
With Samsung's Austin facility now fully online, the company appears poised to meet Apple's surging demand for iPhone and iPad products as it is already preparing for the next generations of those devices to land sometime next year, almost certainly to be led by the iPad 3 early in 2012.
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(View all)Whats to keep samsung from copying all the tech for the new SOC and using it in oh.say. a new galaxy tab ?
:D:D:D:D:D
Yap, Samsung needs to copy SOC or processor technologies because they don't have any experience.
I like people making such ridiculous claims thinking the only one that knows nothing about all is Apple.
There must be a good place this bubble, but there are a real world outside
Yup. Samsungs real good at making their own distinctive stuff.
:rolleyes:
Distinctive like Soc or processor technology? Yes, keep getting owned, is funny
Mobile devices have become this strange surrogate for tribal warfare. Mind you I'm not saying to stop, it's bizarrely fascinating...
Apple canceling this contract will tank
Yap, because when Apple cancels something they don't have to pay damages for it.
Apple canceling this contract will tank Samsung.
When TSMC finishes expansion with Global Foundries Samsung won't be needed.
You know what is even funnier? If Samsung cancels the contract. Imagine the impact of it on iProducts.
I wonder how much (if apple applied a premium on it's products) the prices would rise if Apple had to build and assemble all of it's products here in the US. I wouldn't mind paying more knowing is was all built here in the US.
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