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Apple-Designed 5G Modem Said to Debut in All 2023 iPhone Models
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Qualcomm to innovate more?
Qualcom already has their SD888 with an integrated 5G SA modem that supports LTE also.
Apple is playing catch up, big time.
They don't even have sample silicon, let alone a processor with an integrated modem. SMH...
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It's all being built in-house. Apple will surprise the world like they did with the introduction of M1 chip.
Apple knows what they are doing.
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Because the 5G Apple modem appeared out of a pile of pixie dust and didn't cost a load of money to develop.
A license is not a contract.Oh Dang! That's a good findddd. Apple is able to pay early termination to cancel out the 6-lease agreement
Or maybe they will only introduce it to iPhone Pro Max Model.
Good luck with that. Also, Apple has been doing modem R&D for years before the Intel acquisition - so there's a lot more to recoup than you think
I look forward to Apple-designed 5G modems and how they perform. Furthermore, I want to see how efficient they are in terms of signal strength and battery life.
I'm sure that when they dropped their war and Apple agreed to buy modems exclusively from QCOM for 5 years, AAPL's lawyers also put in some provisions against future suits. Companies aren't as stupid as the average contributor to these forums seem to think.
Maybe they will license the IP from Qualcomm and make their own designs, sort of like what they do with ARM.
You Do know the Apple modem chip is Intel ?
Oh yeah if I were to take the comments section seriously, almost every single article I write is misleading or unnecessary or something or other. It's always something.
I think a lot of people don't appreciate the difficulty of designing a high performance 5G transceiver - without IP. The lawsuit by Qualcomm against Intel was huge and valid enough to make them not only reach a settlement, but to disband an entire division of the company. It's probably the most challenging and lucrative areas. I think I've seen on Macrumors that $30-$50 per iPhone goes to Qualcomm for paying licenses. Intel's transceiver design was based on Qualcomm's IP. How can Apple, who hired those same engineers develop an entirely new architecture without infringing on IP and with adequate performance - in a single generation? I don't have high hopes and this level of vertical integration doesn't buy much - until they can do something interesting with CPU/Modem integration, which may not be a good idea from an RF perspective. They could however decrease price (or keep it nearly the same) and increase volume and pay off the investment over a few years. There's a lot of variables and risk here. It would be interesting if Apple could then sell commodity 5G transceivers and compete with Qualcomm in that space.
11th generation Qualcomm modem that's been battle tested with previous iterations over the decade on billions and billions of smartphones (including Android) VS 1st generation Apple modem that never has seen the light of day before.
You choose
You choose
Lawyers make big bucks by creatively interpreting provisions. The suits will come and a resolution will be expensive and time consuming, regardless of outcome.
I think that Apple may debut ist modem first in MacBooks. As it can be much easier and can be integrated into M chips. It does not be required to be as power efficient as mobile one.
Nah, especially in the US. The infrastructure will probably come almost-kinda-sorta-a-li'l-bit close to matching the marketing by then. mmWave will probably still only be a statistically insignificant percentage in the carriers 5G deployment