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Foxcon agrees to acquire Sharp for $3.5 billion

Today, Foxconn (the company which assembles iPhones) has agreed to acquire majority stakes (approximately two-third states) of Sharp (the company which produces iPhone displays) for $3.5 billion. After, almost a month of bargaining both companies have finally agreed to the takeover of Japanese Manufacturer Sharp by Taiwanese Company Foxconn.

 It looks like Hon Hai Precision Industry Co also known as Foxconn has succeeded to get a lower price tag for the acquisition of the Japanese Company Sharp.

 Foxconn will pay 389 billion yen or $3.5 billion to the financially struggling Japanese Company Sharp in order to own approximately 66 percent stakes of Sharp which probably could increase to 72 percent by 2017.

 Apart from manufacturing iPhone displays Sharp also manufactures numerous consumer products in Japan. Sharp is one of the most popular manufacturers in Japan. But on a global scale, it is not very famous.

 After the Foxconn take over Sharp will increase its display producing potential and also invest in OLED display technology.

"I am thrilled by the prospects for this strategic alliance and I look forward to working with everyone at Sharp. We have much that we want to achieve and I am confident that we will unlock Sharp's true potential and together reach great heights."

“We have much that we want to achieve and I am confident that we will unlock Sharp’s true potential and together reach great heights,” said Foxconn founder Terry Gou.

The acquisition is said to be signed on Saturday. A news conference will also be held in Osaka with both Foxconn founder Terry Gou and Sharp CEO Kozo Takahashi.

Source: WSJ
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iPhone 6s comes with two dissimilar A9 Chips, namely from TSMC and Samsung

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Sometime before the official launch of the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus, several reports were claiming that  both manufactures Samsung and TSMC were developing the A9 chipset for the Apple iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. 

Thus there was a sort of befuddlement over how the split would work, because the both companies Samsung and TSMC used different technologies. Samsung was said to manufacture chips through the 14-nanometer process while on the other hand TSMC was rumored to be using the 16-nanometer process. 

After doing numerous teardowns of the iPhone 6s the folks at Chipworks have confirmed that the devices do have chips from both TSMC and Samsung for sure.  For comparison, the die size of TSMC processor is fairly larger than the die size of the processor made by Samsung. 
Image credits: Chipworks
The chipset "APL0898"made by Samsung measures in at 96 square millimetres, while the chipset" APL1022" measures in at 104.5 square millimetres which manufactured by TSMC. 

Moreover, Apple took the decision of sourcing chipsets from both TSMC and Samsung due to "major sourcing problems", says Chipworks. Apple has adopted several policies to for the prevention of manufacturing issue that can lead to delays. 

Yet we are not sure that whether the difference in the size of chipsets will affect the performance of iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. But thankfully,  Chipworks has already planned to test out if there is a difference of performance in both chipsets from Samsung and TSMC. 
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A new interest based App introduced for News, Passbook renamed to Wallet



Yesterday during Announcement of iOS 9 Apple introduced a New default App for news named "News", the App is actually a competitor to Flipboard and it do pretty much like Flipboard, The app only shows the news you are interested in and you choose your interest.

The App is designed beautifully and is functionality is also awesome, The App along with news Also shows a gallery of photos very nicely and allow you to bookmark the news you are reading.

The news could be from anywhere but Apple send this app with some built in format and Apple says “we think this offers the best mobile reading experience ever.”

News will launch alongside iOS 9, first in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

During the WWDC event Apple Also announces that it has changed the name of built-in App from Passbook to Wallet as Apple last introduced Apple Pay and now also add many more feature to it regarding your wallet so the actually deserve that name.

 The wallet app will be specially good at handling that loyalty cards.

 iOS 9 is available for developers to download right now and its public beta will be available in July and it will be officially launched this fall.

 Also read:
Apple Pay coming to U.K
6-Digit code introduced for iOS
Siri become more intelligent
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