Apple and Samsung are two of the biggest names in the smartphone industry today. We all have heard of their battles on and off court houses across the globe. We also know that Samsung is one of Apple’s chip suppliers. They may be into the love and hate you game, but if rumours are to be believed, Apple is said to sign Samsung to supply chips for their future iPhone/s. 
A news publication called the Korean Economic Daily reported on Monday that Samsung will be supplying Apple with A9 chips based on a 14-nanometer process node starting 2015 (less than two years from now).
This chip is said to power an iPhone (theoretically speaking an iPhone 7) since it is said to go into production in 2015 and we are already talking about the iPhone 5S for this year as the successor to last year’s iPhone 5.
The said report came in just a few weeks after another news agency said that Apple and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reached their three-year deal in creating Apple’s A-series chipsets (extending all the way to silicon called the A9).
The Korean tech giant has been an exclusive manufacture of Apple’s A-series chipsets for its iOS devices (including the current A6 chipset). But then again, Apple has been reducing its chip orders to Samsung for its upcoming iPhone as Apple is trying to diversify its supply line and to totally reduce its
Samsung has been an exclusive manufacture of Apple’s A series processors for its iOS devices (A6 included). However, Apple has been reducing its chip orders to Samsung for its next-gen iPhone as the latter tries to diversify its supply line and reduce its dependence on its main rival.
It was only last year, when Apple sued Samsung for allegedly copying its popular iPhone and iPad. Today, the two tech giants are still locked in different cases (involving a ban on Apple’s iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad and iPad 2 sales in the US).
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