TSMC and Samsung Vie for A9 Chip Contract

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Josephine Lien and Jessie Shen, Samsung, TSMC Still Competing for Apple A9 Chip Orders. DigiTimes (Taipei), Nov 4, 2014
www.digitimes.com/news/a20141103PD205.html
("TSMC is making the majority of the A8 chips for Apple's latest iPhones")

Note: Apple A8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A8
(first appeared in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which was introduced on September 9, 2014; The A8 is manufactured on a 20 nm process by TSMC,[1] which replaced Samsung as the manufacturer of Apple's mobile device processors)

, where footnote 1 is
The A8 Processor; The A8 Processor. Chipworks, Oct 1, 2014.
www.chipworks.com/en/technical-c ... hone-6-plus-part-2/