[rryyan]

"Even though the A6 was manufactured by Samsung, that doesn't mean it was designed by Samsung. The Apple A6 processor is Apple's first custom-designed processor."

Presumably there is some strain in relations between Apple and Samsung, given that they compete in the mobile device market, and the lawsuit over copying designs.

Would Apple be worried that Samsung would be able to glean trade secrets from their custom design of the A6? Would the information provided to Samsung for manufacture of the chip pose this kind of risk? Or would be less like handing off source code, and more like handing off a compiled binary?

[tobylane]

I would hope Chinese firewalls, professionalism and the contracts stop that happening.