Apple and Samsung’s epic patent battles are supposed to be part of folklore soon. And yet how both manage to maintain professional business relations is beyond us.
As per a report from Reuters, Samsung Electronics is planning to invest a further $4 billion into its Austin, Texas based chip making plant to renovate production lines and boost production of system chips.
This is the plant from where most of the A5 and the A5Xchips for the iPhone and the iPad are supplied to Apple, making Samsung one of its largest suppliers. Samsung is also the largest supplier of logic chips in the world and is upping the production capacity to meet the ever increasing demand from Apple and other smartphone manufacturers including for Samsung devices as well.
Taking the $4 billion investment into account, Samsung has already invested about $13 billion already in the Austin plant. Makes us believe they are confident of keeping Apple has a client in the long term.
Now while Apple and Samsung are battling it out in the courts to establish the originality of their device, one thing is for sure they both have their logic chips coming from the same place which is owned by Samsung.
The announcement of the investment comes at an interesting time and forces us to ponder whether it has more to do with pacifying Apple which is bashing them left and right in the courts?
The jury is expected to come to a decision soon and it would be interesting to see what kind of a professional relation the two are able to maintain in the aftermath.