A fallout of the patents dispute between Apple
Inc.(NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung is already making itself felt.
The Cupertino company has slashed its orders for
memory chips from Korean company Samsung for its new iPhone, Reuters reported
on Thursday quoting a source.
Samsung has been a long-time supplier to Apple, for
microprocessors, flat screens and memory chips for many of Apple's devices such
as iPhones, iPads and iPods.
Apple has been cutting its orders from Samsung as it
tries to diversify its lines of supply for memory chips, although the South
Korean firm remains on the list of initial suppliers for the new iPhone, the
source told Reuters.
On Friday, the Korea Economic Daily said that Apple
had dropped Samsung from its list of memory chip suppliers for the first batch
new iPhones.
Apple is widely expected to release its new iPhone 5
on September 12, at an event that has been intensely speculated and written
about.
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Samsung has been replaced by Toshiba Corp, Elpida
Memory and Korea's SK Hyndix, who will supply dynamic random access memory
chips and NAND memory chips.
"Samsung is still in the list of initial memory
chip suppliers (for new iPhones). But Apple orders have been trending down and
Samsung is making up for the reduced order from others, notably Samsung's
handset business," the Reuters source said.
The source however said that there was no truth to the
speculation that Apple's move to cut out Samsung from its suppliers' list had
anything to do with the on-going patents dispute between the two companies and
consequent sourcing of relations between them.
Apple's iPhones are widely seen to be facing a supply
crunch due to a delay in shipments of LCD screens by Sharp.
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