Apple is also the biggest customer for Samsung, outside of Samsung themselves. And they have preferential contracts with Samsung, too. Enough that Apple has required the Samsung chip manufacturing subsidiary to operate with Chinese Walls between them and the other Samsung businesses, and sometimes Apple gets preferential treatment over those other Samsung businesses.
So, this is a frying pan versus fire situation. I don’t think AMD and Qualcomm are doing themselves any favors here.
Do you have any link or data to back that up? Obviously, Samsung isn't entirely open about who's paying it how much...
Another large customer (that will be jumping ship to TSMC) is Nvidia, and clearly Samsung isn't supplying any of apples core SOC's anymore, so what is Samsung providing to apple that's valuable enough to make apple it's largest customer?
So, this is a frying pan versus fire situation. I don’t think AMD and Qualcomm are doing themselves any favors here.