Apple Shifts its ARM Flip-Chip Biz from Samsung to Unimicron

BrightWire, a business-to-business resource for portfolio managers, has reported that the Taiwan based China Times has been told that Apple has shifted orders for its important flip-chip chip scale package for ARM chips from Samsung's SEMCO to Taiwanese printed circuit board maker Unimicron Technology Corp. It's another move by Apple to decrease its business with Samsung for slavishly copying their products. The report goes on to state that Unimicron had started small-scale shipments in 4Q 2012 and will shift into mass production when their new plant is launched sometime in 2013.