Report: Chips for Apple's iPad, iPhone to be Made in New York

A GlobalFoundries plant in upstate New York will begin making chips for Apple's iPad and iPhone, according to a report.

A group from Samsung, which currently makes logic microprocessors for the iPad and iPhone at an Austin, Texas, fabrication plant, will help the GlobalFoundries team learn to create the chips, according to The Times-Union. GlobalFoundries is in the process of building a $2 billion 565,000 square-foot Technology Development Center next to its current factory. It's not clear when GlobalFoundries will be creating the new chips and whether it will do so in the new facility, which is expected to be completed next year Read more...