Samsung Electronics will produce digital image sensors for Apple in the latest sign that South Korean technology companies are starting to reap the benefits of a series of US investments and President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff policies.
The iPhone maker on Wednesday said it would work with Samsung’s semiconductor facility in Austin, Texas, “to launch an innovative new technology for making chips, which has never been used before anywhere in the world”.
Although the companies did not specify the technology to be deployed, people familiar with the deal said the South Korean chipmaker would make a three-layer stacked image sensor — used in smartphone cameras to capture images — for Apple’s iPhone 18, expected to be released next year.