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Originally Posted by jplinville
With Samsung being a rather large supplier of processors for the whole line of Apple products, I'm sure we'll see a major price hike in the near future for Apple's devises.
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I doubt it. Samsung makes the A5 processor under contract for Apple in Austin, Tejas. The processor is Apple's design, not Samsung's. The A5 is used in iPads and iPhones, but not in computers or iPods. There is no reason that Apple couldn't renegotiate production of the A5 with someone else if they thought it necessary. Austin is full of high tech plants that'd jump at the chance to grab that chip contract from Samsung.
Samsung sunk nearly 4 billion into building that plant so they could produce the chips for Apple. A price gouge for payback seems pretty short-sighted. They'll just string it out in court for years and finally settle for a few hundred million in fines.
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