Are Samsung, Apple getting closer?

By Kim Yoo-chul

Samsung Electronics is seemingly poised to quadruple the shipment of its advanced mobile processor chips to its most outstanding partner and rival in the United States ― Apple.

Analysts point out that the measure may herald the era of full-fledged cooperation between the two giants after two years of estranged relations in the midst of smartphone competition.

Apple stopped buying application processors (APs), the equivalent of central processing units (CPU) for mobile handsets, from Samsung in 2008 in line with its strategy of creating custom chips for