     I. Samsung Goes on the Offensive      II. From Friends to
Enemies    However, the pair's relationship has been    III.
What Does Apple Claim?     The "fat iPad" design patent (  By
contrast the iPhone design patents (     IV. What does Samsung
Claim?     Apple is    Again the answer here seems largely
subjective.  V. Fallout of the Patent War     Samsung is 
Comments     Threshold   RE: Sounds like By kitonne on 9/19/2011
12:08:54 PM , Rating: 5 Re: Moving to other suppliers - it is
already in progress, see ElReg (Taiwan, if the reports are
accurate).  Issue is that Apple is using custom chips, and you
cannot move them very fast elsewhere. Apple is doing the high
level design in Verilog/VHDL/whatever, and the result is
compiled with the libraries provided by the ASIC vendor (Samsung
in the case of the current CPUs used in iWhatever). After you
have the first compiled output with no errors, the real fun
starts: you have to look at the propagation delays and optimize
the critical path through the device