http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/26/market-chatter-idUSL4N0V52EC20150126

* South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will be the main supplier of processors powering Apple Inc's next iPhone, Maeil Business Newspaper reported, citing unidentified sources in the semiconductor industry.

http://www.timesofoman.com/News/46328/Article-Cash-rich-Samsung-denies-proposal-to-buy-BlackBerry

Seoul: Whether or not Samsung Electronics has BlackBerry in its sights, it should spend some of its $63 billion of cash on takeovers.

Samsung, which has an alliance with BlackBerry, this month denied reports it proposed buying the Canadian smartphone maker for as much as $7.5 billion. Even so, a takeover would give Samsung the software to help its products communicate, according to Current Analysis.

The $190 billion South Korean conglomerate makes dozens of consumer goods, from phones and televisions to vacuum cleaners and ovens. What it needs is technology to link all the devices together online in the wireless homes of the future. Other potential targets include Atmel and Freescale Semiconductor, whose chips help devices talk to each other, said CM Research.