Today I learnt that my LG Nexus 5X uses a Samsung manufactured DRAM :O

I had no idea that several Google and Apple devices use Samsung manufactured RAM chips!

PS - Don't judge me, I'm a hardware noob.

You'll find this all over the place; displays, for example, are often made by LG or Samsung and used in other manufacturer's devices.

I tend to think of the phone side and electronic components/modules side of Samsung as two separate business entities.

I'm not sure, don't kill me for saying something wrong, I think Samsung produces most of all ram chips that most PC ram producers use on their RAM

Besides that, Apple ordered AMOLED screens for the new iPhone 8 from Samsung.

It's just business.

@b3b3 Micron and Kingston would be big players in that area too:)

The iPod classic went out of production because Samsung stopped making the HDDs that went in them.

Shit is flat out incestuous, yo.

Never use flash while taking pictures of motherboards!

Isn't uncommon.
For example did you know that the Netflix-Site uses AWS for hosting?

It is definitely weird when you see these companies sue each other time after time.

I actually have a Nexus 5 in the cupboard I threatened to take apart to let my daughters see how phones are constructed. Must get round to it.

@RAZERZ ?

@Pizza tried to look it up, didn't find anything. @RAZERZ what's the story?

@IwraStudios @Pizza
I think he means something like this

https://raspberrypi.org/blog/...

If it is boring for you to read all just search that keywords on yt.

@milkybarkid the gddr5x in my RX 480 is from Samsung too

Samsung own the business you won't believe a tech company will ever do, like insurance, finance

@shelladdicted I remember that! But I think he's probably saying not to use flash because there could be EPROMs on the motherboard which are designed to be UV erasable. No motherboard these days would have that but way back when computers were in their infancy it would be pretty common.

You could end up erasing firmware on the board, i.e. BIOS; that's my best guess to where the no flash myth comes from.

@IwraStudios happened on lots of raspberry pi's, the solution? Don't use the flash. Apparently happened on a lot of phone motherboards but computer motherboards seem to be fine :/

Oh okay. Thank you for letting me know.
But my my phone was fucked up anyway :-/