Samsung Electronics won contracts with LG Apple to supply DRAM chips for their new range of smartphones.

The deal is worth billions and marks the end of the days when Apple tried to depend on other suppliers to make its chips and DRAM.

Under the agreement, Samsung will start providing LG Electronics with 100 percent mobile DRAM chips it needs for LG G4 smartphone, which will be unveiled in April. Also, Samsung will handle at least half of the amount that Apple needs for its new iPhone 6S.

Apple may ask more from Samsung to supply the chips particularly if they feel let down by TSMC..

Samsung Electronics' handset division also separately agreed with the company's semiconductor division to use its in-house mobile DRAM chips for the Galaxy S6.

Crying into its beer will be SK Hynix of which mainstream mobile DRAMs use 25-nanometer processing level technology.
Samsung began mass production of the next generation memory chip --the 8-Gigabit LPDDR4 (low power double data rate) mobile DRAM with 20 nanometers.

The so-called LPDDR memory, the most used in mobile devices, is poised to enable a new technological leap for premium smartphones.

This new DRAM offers twice the density and performance compared to the LPDDR3 4-gigabit.

LG has confirmed that it will be using Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 processors and mobile DRAM chips and Apple will be using Samsung mobile processors that will be used to power the upcoming iPhone 6S which is to be released later this year.

For applications, Samsung will be responsible for up to 80 percent of the production of the A9 chipset, while TSMC will take care of what is left over.

What this means practically is that while all the major smartphones on the market are badged to Apple, or LG or Samsung, they will all be running on the same parts. So while Apple or LG fanboys sing praises about their technology, they will be essentially be waving a rebadged Samsung phone at you. MD is hiring a CPU performance engineer to optimize its GPU drivers