Apple and Samsung have an increasingly competitive relationship over the recent years, with their iPhone and Galaxy S-lines doing battle to see which can sustain this highest level of technological advancement the longest. Another well-documented, but perhaps less known, fact is that Samsung actually supplies Apple with mobile processor chips and has actually signed an agreement with Apple to provide them with 14mm A9 chips through to what is predicted to be the iPhone 7.
It comes as no surprise then that we see that the highly vaunted A7 64-bit chip in the Apple iPhone 5S, which has produced a 20-30% performance improvement over the old iPhone 5, is actually made by Samsung. And as a related side-note, if anyone is considering switching to the iPhone 5S because of its 64-bit processor, have a read of this article and see why a 64-bit processor is no better than a 32-bit processor in the current and near future mobile industry.
So there you have it, another product of the awkward relationship between Apple and Samsung, which at the heart of it, is just good business. Anybody want to share their opinion on this relationship between Apple and Samsung? Share it with us in the comments.
