Apple’s buying power relegates Samsung to distant second

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Here’s another category where Apple and Samsung go head to head: chip buying. And Apple’s dominance is expanding rapidly.

Rip off the plastic, metal, and glass on any consumer device, and it’s pretty much all chips. And if you’re the No. 1 buyer of those chips, as Apple is, that means you hold a lot of sway over global chip manufacturing.

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