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Apple is reportedly working with Samsung to build iPhone image sensors in Texas

Apple has announced that it's working with Samsung at its Texas plant to "launch an innovative new technology for making chips."

The chips in question are reportedly three-layer stacked image sensors that will allow for fast smartphone camera shooting speeds and high-frame-rate 8K video, along with reduced rolling shutter "jello" distortion. Samsung may have won the business due to its likely exemption from upcoming tariffs on foreign chips announced yesterday by Trump that could be as high as 100 percent. One big reason for Sony's domination is its cutting edge technology, having been first to market in nearly every major advance, including backside illumination, two-layer stacked sensors and global shutters on mirrorless cameras.

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