Production of quad-core processors instead of Apple A6 Samsung started TSMC

Company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd (TSMC) has launched a test production of mobile processors A6. Thus for the release of 28-nanometer chips next generation Samsung will be responsible instead of the Taiwanese TSMC.

As the Taiwan Economic News, count on the fact that these processors will appear in the iPad the third generation is impossible. According to the manufacturer, the chips do not go into mass production until the second quarter of next year.

Characteristics of A6 were not disclosed, although it is introducing a new chip graphics processor PowerVR Series 6, capable of much better graphics performance than the current A5. It is assumed that the A6 will be the first quad-core mobile lineup in Apple, becoming the heart of the sixth generation of smartphones iPhone, expected in 2012.

Information Publishing podverzhdaet early information that provided Reuters in July . Both agree that the news - the final version of the A6 processors appear in the middle of 2012.

In late June  it was reported that Apple chose to deny service to Samsung in the production of chips for A6 litigation has been pending since April 2011. The fact that Apple chose TSMC as the provider may cause a blow to Samsung profits , which share components in the iPhone 4, for example, is 26%.

Recall, the two companies accused each other of patent infringement. In its claims against Samsung Apple  claims that smartphones and Tablet Galaxy line of copy iPhone and iPad. Samsung's answer states that the company Steve Jobs illegally uses its development in telecommunications. Apple last success in this field was the  prohibition of sales of tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Europe.

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