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by briandh 4283 days ago
> The chip is probably manufactured in China

Available info indicates that the A8 is fabbed on a 20nm process by both Samsung and TSMC [1]. For Samsung, that would indicate production in either the US or South Korea [2]; for TSMC, that would indicate production is in Taiwan [3].

[1] http://recode.net/2014/09/23/teardown-shows-apples-iphone-6-...

[2] http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/foundry...

[3] http://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/anton-shilov...