Apple has been trying to find a company other than Samsung to manufacture its chipsets. Current indications are that it succeeded and TSMC is building the upcoming Apple A10 chipsets (to be used in the iPhone 7). The Taiwanese company may have scored the deal for the following year and the A11 chipset too. All of them. The current A9 is built on Samsung's 14nm process, but the A10 is allegedly using TSMC's 16nm process as the 10nm one wasn't ready. It seems that the company has mage progress and the A11s will be built on 10nm. Or it could be that it offered a lower price than...
Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_may_have_given_100_of_a11_chipset_orders_to_tsmc-news-19491.php
