Techdirt. Stories filed under "processors" Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us Techdirt. Stories filed under "processors"http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:21:00 PST Apple Learns That Suing A Key Supplier May Not Be So Smart; Samsung Jacks Up Prices On Apple Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121112/11010321021/apple-learns-that-suing-key-supplier-may-not-be-so-smart-samsung-jacks-up-prices-apple.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121112/11010321021/apple-learns-that-suing-key-supplier-may-not-be-so-smart-samsung-jacks-up-prices-apple.shtml supplier... and it appears that Samsung is now using that to its advantage, jacking up the price on a mobile processor supplied to Apple by 20%. The report notes that Apple pushed back initially, but after realizing it couldn't find a reasonable replacement, agreed to the new prices.
According to the report, Apple buys all APs used for production of iPhone and iPad from Samsung Electronics with the volume estimated to be 130 million units last year and more than 200 million units this year.

Samsung Electronics has a long-term contract to supply APs to Apple until 2014, the report added.
So even if Samsung has to pay Apple for patent infringement, perhaps it'll be financed by the higher prices on processors Samsung sells Apple.

Maybe, next time, instead of suing each other, they could just focus on building products people like and letting the market sort the rest out.

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]]> oh-look-at-that http://www.techdirt.com/comment_rss.php?sid=20121112/11010321021 Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:33:16 PST Fake Processors, Passing The Blame, Legal Nastygrams And More... Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100308/0126328456.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100308/0126328456.shtml Richard Corsale writes in to let us know about how popular electronics e-commerce site NewEgg apparently received 300 totally fake Intel processors and at least some of them were sold. They're not processors at all. They're just made to look like them from the outside. NewEgg's initial response was to claim that its supplier shipped them demo boxes by accident -- but Intel is claiming that's not true, and the boxes are not official Intel demo boxes, but counterfeit demo boxes. Then, to make the story even odder, many publications reported that NewEgg's supplier for these fake processors was a company called D&H -- and D&H's response to all of these stories is to send out legal nastygrams to anyone reporting on the story and mentioning D&H. Perhaps it's worth giving D&H the benefit of the doubt, but why not just come out and say "hey, it wasn't us," and get NewEgg to confirm or deny who provided the fake processors before sending out a legal threat?

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