Apple iPhone5 A6 chip production is still in the hands of Samsung

Despite quite a lot of rivalry between Samsung and Apple, the two had litigate patent issues. But, according to VentureBeat reported, Apple iPhone5 the A6 chip turned out to be manufactured by Samsung. UBM TechInsights engineers carefully disassemble the iPhone5, and come to the above conclusion. Unlike other ordinary disassemble team, see the circuit boards and chips, they did not stop at this, but to pry out the iPhone5 A6 chip, peel the surface layers of carefully scraped off, and detected with an electron microscope .

Yogasingam said 32nm process "refers to the average size of the parts, for example, the transistor chip. Semiconductor manufacturers to improve chip speed and performance of a method is developed equipment, in order to manufacture smaller parts, it followed by Moore's Law - the integrated circuit chip can accommodate the number of transistors is approximately doubled every two years some, the performance will be doubling, and this trend will continue.

Yogasingam at the same time provide the picture below, this is a team from the A6 chip.

He also added more technical details:

A6 chip, a cross-sectional view shows that the use of metal and the insulating layer with the previously used in the Apple TV A5 processor almost exactly the same, and the latter may also be manufactured by Samsung; process node constant at 32nm; for stack gate the tests also show that it uses a the HKMG technology of Gatefirst process; the PMOS part contains a silicon germanium layer.

In the news, in the courts, even in the ad, Samsung and Apple Commander opposed to competitive. However, on the supply of spare parts, but they have a close cooperation. To "Samsung" never as simple like go to Google of replacement parts manufacturer to take into account the technical and production capacity. At this level, Apple still can not get rid of dependence on Samsung. So when Samsung ad criticizing iPhone5, we do not forget: iPhone5 with a Samsung core.