Back in September, 2013, we heard rumors of the South Korean multinational manufacturer, Samsung to make the initial amount for Apple's A8 chipsets, about 30 to 40 percent for the American's upcoming smartphone, this year. The news also made it clear, that the remaining numbers will be full filled by the Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC.
As today's reports emerge from a Taiwanese source, both Samsung and Apple will not be working anymore together, for any kind of partnerships in the near future. Reportedly, the Cupertino people has handed over the entire consignment for manufacturing A8 chipsets to the independent TSMC, away from the Koreans. The alleged reasons given by the sources for Samsung to not work with Apple this time around, is mainly because of the production issues involved in making A8 SoC's at 20nm manufacturing process, where the company is facing delays in supplying the orders at the moment. It is also said the 'Big S' may return back to partner the 'Big A' for their A9 processor components, as it could be made out of 16nm or 14nm tech, and Samsung has done it before.
Source: TechNews, G4GAMES