Every year it is the same thing. We hear that Samsung or TSMC will be building a majority of Apple’s next-generation Ax SoC. Then, rumors come out saying that the other firm is building the lion’s share of the chipset. This back and forth has more importance to it this year because of the perceived variations between TSMC built A9 chips, and those produced by Samsung. Apple says that the variation in battery life and other metrics should be no more than 2% to 3% between the Samsung and TSMC produced A9 chips, and most benchmark and real world tests do prove Apple to be correct.
Still, even …
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