Some A9 processors are made by Samsung. Why doesn't Samsung use this technology on its own models?

The main reason why Samsung can snatch most a9 orders from TSMC is that Samsung dug Liang Mengsong up from the beginning. The joining of Liang Mengsong has directly made Samsung's technology in chip manufacturing advance by leaps and bounds, and advanced technology has overwhelmed TSMC.

At that time, Samsung's process had reached 14nm, and it took TSMC half a year to mass-produce the 16nm process. The huge technological gap directly made Samsung snatch most of the chip orders from Qualcomm and Apple, leaving only about 20% of the order share for TSMC.

Instead of applying advanced technology to our own Orion, we might as well give these technologies to Apple Bionic Chip and Qualcomm Snapdragon. Samsung Orion's own market share is not too high. In addition to Samsung's own products equipped with Orion, domestic manufacturers have left Meizu and vivo in use.

Compared with bionic chips and Qualcomm Snapdragon, Samsung Orion has almost no market share. Winning most orders for bionic chips and Qualcomm Snapdragon means that Samsung has mastered the initiative in manufacturing and will generate huge commercial profits.

Although Samsung's market share has always ranked first in the world, Apple is the absolute leader in the shipment and market share of high-end models. Instead of wasting time and effort to make Orion, it is better to make chips for Apple, which is profitable.

The a9 chip is produced by two foundries, namely TSMC with 16 nm and Samsung with 14 nm.

Samsung's process is 96 square millimeters, and TSMC's process is 104.5 square millimeters. In terms of chip size, Samsung is smaller than TSMC by 10% due to its more advanced technology. Therefore, Samsung's a9 chip is slightly ahead of TSMC in terms of power consumption and energy consumption ratio.

However, Samsung's 14nm process is, after all, a technology led by Liang Mengsong to skip 20nm and leapfrog directly. In terms of stability, there is a certain probability that it will not be as stable as TSMC's 16nm. Therefore, Samsung is slightly inferior to TSMC in output.

Although Samsung's technology is developing rapidly, haste makes waste. Liang Mengsong worked in TSMC for 17 years, leaving many technical details. Although Samsung hired Liang Mengsong, the technical background gap between Samsung and TSMC can not be equalized in about a year. Compared with TSMC, a steadily developing giant, Samsung is even worse.