[fpgeek]

Samsung is actually having trouble meeting their own internal demand for components. IIRC, they were even getting memory from arch-rival Hynix at some point this year. Having Apple dial back might not be such a bad thing for Samsung if it helps sort out their internal supply chain.

[josephlord]

Samsung has long sourced externally for parts. Despite being (one of?) the worlds biggest LCD panel vendors many of their TVs had non-Samsung panels in them at least a few years ago. It was particularly the mid-low ranges.

[MaysonL]

Their Galaxy S4 in the US uses a Qualcomm CPU...

[Nursie]

They use Qualcomm anywhere they need LTE, as nobody else has that properly sorted.

[MaysonL]

Qualcomm CPU, not just Qualcomm LTE module.