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Apple Reportedly Wants to Have a Custom 5G Modem Ready for Use in Some Products by 2021
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Sure. Like Apples first ever custom-designed 64bit SoC, which crushed everyone else in terms of performance and sent them scrambling to make their own?
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Since Apple will only use their 5G modems internally there isn’t much for Qualcomm to lose. All Qualcomm will lose is orders from Apple. A bit of a loss, but nothing that will seriously harm their company.
Few things. One, Intel's management is crap, they're particularly bad in non-CPU products. They let marketing run the show, while the engineering is falling apart.
Second, internal politics. Infineon stuck the usual ARM cores on and sent their chips to TSMC. A big effort was spent to switch to x86 cores and Intel fabs, which was largely a waste of time and money. They also were involved in that whole effort to make smartphone CPUs with an integrated baseband, which ultimately failed because nobody wanted x86 smartphones.
Third, when a company buys another one, it's an opportunity to make everybody re-interview for their jobs and fire anybody who you don't want. It's harder, politically and as morale, to do this during the normal run of a company.
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That much is true, I think a more reasonable expectation would be 22-23. These first generation 5g are going to be beta testers at best. If they are able to match qualcomm by 23 and reduce battery usage, then the investment was worthwhile.
No, that's not going to happen. Apple has a licensing agreement with Qualcomm to use their technology should they decide to do so.
I think what they “have” that Intel did not, was a paying customer. Apple was going to spend that much in R&D or licensing anyway.
So rumors about next year iPhone doesn’t get enough click bait anymore so let’s gossip about something two years beforehand about something unimportant for 99% of the consumers. Meaning the average consumer.
We (average consumer) really don’t care about the specs and what not.
My iPhone 8 takes great enough pics. Is still blazingly fast and does everything I want from a phone/camera/internet device.
Must be a pathetic life you people have.
It’s all about keeps shareholders happy.
We (average consumer) really don’t care about the specs and what not.
My iPhone 8 takes great enough pics. Is still blazingly fast and does everything I want from a phone/camera/internet device.
Must be a pathetic life you people have.
It’s all about keeps shareholders happy.
You do realize that you're on a tech forum, not conversing in line at the supermarket like the "average consumer" would be doing. So yeah, some folks may just be into the latest tech news, especially if they are deciding if/when they're going to upgrade.
I think Apple's acquisition of Intel's 5G IP, etc., is similar to the Rockets / Thunder deal, where Apple just ended-up with the equivalent of Chris Paul.
Contrary to popular belief, life is not a script written by Aaron Sorkin.
And precisely as many people will care as in every previous AppleGate:
some idiot journalists, various internet twelve year-olds with nothing better to do, and precisely zero of Apple's ACTUAL customers...
Focus. Apple will not be trying to carve out some significant market share to compete with Qualcomm, so they don't have to ship the number of products and product variations this would entail. They just have to develop the few models needed for Apple devices. In fact, the problem is even more focused, as they will continue to fill some of their needs with Qualcomm chips.
Niceness aside, Qualcomm is primarily responsible for major price hikes in products which affect all of us. They are also under investigation for violating FRAND patent agreements and blamed by just about every single phone maker for these violations but since they have a monopoly on cellular modem patents, they run over all of us. This isn't about negotiating, it's mostly about violating agreements that have long past negotiations.
You're not wrong. In fact, you put your finger on it perfectly.
And exactly WHAT leads you to believe that creating a modem is more difficult than creating a world-class mobile CPU? Or a world-class GPU?
After all there are more companies out there who have created their own internal modems than have created their own mobile CPUs or GPUs... eg Huawei or Mediatek have designed their own modems --- but use ARM-designed CPUs and GPUs. And Samsung shipped Shannon before they shipped Mongoose.
This ridiculous insistence that a modem is the most difficult tech in the world and only QC has the magic fairy dust to make it is idiotic, resembling the insistence five years ago that only Intel had the CPU magic fairy dust.
Very hard to take your comments criticizing the behavior of others seriously when you have to use insulting names. If you have valid points they should stand on their own merits... name calling won't help..
Apple has a far more technically capable staff, decades of operating system knowledge Intel has never had and much more.
what apple fanboys? hows that insulting, there are folks on here that will go to all end to defend apple, no matter how wrong they are, i had a full blown argument against one delusional twit thinking the nvme in a iphone is faster than my samsung 960 pro ssd, and intel modems are on par with qualcom modems.
And management that believes that understands that a mobile modem is a core product, and not a support chip for an X86 processor.