Tim Worstall  Tim Worstall, Contributor  I write about business
and technology.  11/12/2012 @ 9:33AM |7,387 views  Samsung
Raises Prices To Apple: I Wonder Why?  Now this is an
interesting little tale: Samsung has raised the price it charges
Apple for the main applications processors in the iPhone and
iPad. The interesting question is why have they done this? I
have a suspicion that I know the answer why: no proof, just a
suspicion.  Samsung Electronics , the world’s largest technology
firm by revenue, raised the price of mobile processor supplied
to Apple Inc. AAPL +0.67% by 20% recently, Chosun Ilbo reported
Monday, citing a person familiar with negotiations between the
two tech giants.   There are good reasons to raise the price you
charge to a customer: for example, if your input costs have gone
up. But that doesn’t really apply in semiconductor manufacture.
About the only cost that really matters in the production of a
silicon chip is the cost of the plant to build it. This is
billions upon billions of d