This is an excerpt from an different article from about the same time as Disco98's article portraying the collaboration between Samsung and Global Foundries for Apple, around 2013. Bold highlight by me

"When rumors began to circulate this summer that a deal between Apple and GlobalFoundries was in the works, U.S. Sen. Schumer said that he was also working behind the scenes to foster the relationship.

Schumer said he was approached by GlobalFoundries CEO Ajit Manocha to help the company develop a “stronger relationship” with Apple.

“I have been urging Apple to consider developing a manufacturing and research partnership with GlobalFoundries,” Schumer said back in July. “This would be show-stopping news in the Capital Region, and I am doing everything I can to make this a reality.”

Although Samsung and Apple are direct competitors in the smart phone and tablet market, the two companies have a symbiotic relationship. Apple doesn’t make its own chips, it needs to outsource them. However, Apple likes to use Samsung because it not only has a domestic factory, but it also provides Apple with memory chips in addition to the logic chips. Its cheaper for Apple to buy both types of chips from the same company. Samsung has also developed new technologies to make logic and memory chips connect better, eliminating tiny bottlenecks in the flow of information and power.

The one advantage that GlobalFoundries can offer Apple is another domestic source for chips. Apple has said it wants to make more of its components in the U.S. TSMC’s fabs are in Taiwan.

Two years ago, Samsung and GlobalFoundries also“synced” four of their fabs, including Samsung’s S2 fab and GlobalFoundries’ Fab 8 in Malta, to include the latest chips for mobile devices. By syncing their fabs, the company can go to a customer and tell them that their chips will be made the same way by either company".

This is the complete source article: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.timesunion.com%2Fbusiness%2Fglobalfoundries-to-make-apple-chips-with-samsung%2F57805%2F&ei=-DMbVcnQJdfjoASK5IGYCg&usg=AFQjCNEkMHcyPj6fGK1SpLh7JQuiS9MMjw&sig2=sgGm7-E0AOuH3DXyy-4eYQ . Apple will not let limitations of a company to become its own limitations, leading to shortfalls. Procurement guy's nightmare. I wonder if Tony Blevins had anything to do with that arrangement. He's in charge of Apple Procurement and Fufillment ("always have a back-up", as my mentor told me on many occasions). Once again, Collaboration. So Ajit worked on Apple products previously? Interesting, the small world of microprocessors