Previously, Apple has been known to rely on Samsung to manufacture their custom mobile chipsets, but according to reports that may no longer be true. If one can recall, last year's A8 chipsets were produced largely by TSMC together with Samsung. Samsung is the only A-series chipmaker for some time until the said production.

The Cupertino company's latest A9 chipset was also manufactured together by both companies. During which some tests were conducted and the results favoured those made by Taiwan's TSMC in terms of better benchmark performance and battery life. With these results, Samsung seems to be taking a back seat and TSMC looks better than ever. TSMC will be in charge solely of the upcoming A10 chipsets of the tech company.

If this does push through, Apple would be the first customer of TSMC who will use their integrated fan-out (InFO) packaging in mass production. The said technology will reduce both the thickness and weight of devices because it allows chips to be stacked on top of each other and directly mounted on a circuit board instead of being mounted on a substrate first.

Various reports have also been flying about TSMC becoming the exclusive manufacturer of the mentioned A10 chipsets. And while this might create a bit of supply issues if TSMC run into problems, this might end with a better result for Apple. Recently, it could be observed that the Apple has distanced themselves from Samsung, their main competitor as the world's leading smartphone maker.

And if the InFO deal comes into fruition, it could mean that TSMC will gain over $300 million USD in terms of sales and will reach $1 billion USD in 2017. With this, the company might also be able to pull an estimated of $2.2 billion USD and $2.5 billion USD in revenue from the said A10 chipset production.

Analysts are forecasting TSMC to make a total of $4.6 billion USD from Apple's orders next year which will show a significant raise from their last year's $3.7 billion USD.

Meanwhile, despite receiving many complaints on the difficulty of gripping their current models and issues with the battery life, the tech company is said to still plan to make their iPhones thinner next year. Reports say that they plan to make them between 6.0 and 6.5 millimetres thick. The recent news about them ditching the 3.5 mm headphone jack has also slightly confirmed this possibility.