Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd will become the exclusive provider of mobile processors for the next generation iPhone, the official release is expected in the autumn of 2016.
Reportedly, Apple has also considered in addition to TSMC as A10 processor supplier for the iPhone 7 South Korean manufacturer Samsung, with which it has long-standing business relationship. But for some reasons it decided to do an exclusive manufacturer TSMC. It will produce A10 processor for the next iPhone on 10-nanometer process technology.
Now, let us recall, Samsung and TSMC supply A9 chips for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus.
By the way, according to the latest market research firm Parks Associates, Apple company is still the leader in the US smartphone market. Now it owns 40% of the local market. However, manufacturers of Android-smartphone gaining ground. Thus, the South Korean company Samsung holds 31% of the smartphone market in the US and the third largest steel producer LG with a share of 10%. Motorola and HTC, owns approximately 4-5% of the local market, and the remaining share is divided between the other manufacturers, including Huawei and OnePlus.
Apple is still the dominant smartphone manufacturer in the US, but it is catching up with Samsung," - says Harry Wang (Harry Wang), director of the Health & Mobile Product Research, Parks Associates .
As for the global mobile market, the situation is different. Thus, according to Strategy Analytics, in the third quarter 2015. Samsung was the leader in the global smartphone market with 23.7% share. And Apple ranked second with 13.6% of the market.