Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) will be the sole supplier of mobile processors for Apple's next iPhones, South Korea's Electronic Times reported on Thursday citing unnamed industry sources. TSMC beat rival chipmaker Samsung Electronics to make the A10 application processors (AP) using 10-nanometre manufacturing technology, the report said.

Samsung and TSMC both supply the processors for the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus.

Apple’s A9 Chips that were produced using 14 and 16-nano processes by both Samsung Electronics and TSMC.