Those are patent royalties for cellular standards and you have to pay Qualcomm no matter who manufactures the modem.
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Qualcomm Expecting to Supply Just 20% of 2023 iPhone Modems As Apple Prepares to Launch Its Own Chips
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The main technical reason: likely that Apple’s 5G modems are fully integrated onto the SoC.
Thus, for the eventual A15 / A16 SoCs refresh for the base iPad, Apple will still need Qualcomm’s discrete modems.
Old iPhones: I don’t think they’re very relevant in total volume. It’s likely
high-volume low-end 2023 iPads running 2021 / 2022 SoCs—SoCs that require discrete (and thus) Qualcomm modems.
Not illegal to be a monopoly. It's illegal to use certain businesses practices if you are a monopoly.
Agreed, think of all the other areas where Apple insourcing has enabled huge gains. Power savings, performance, space savings, no need to make chip generic for other customers, better system integration. And better (for the end user) carrier integration like the original Apple/Cingular partnership.
Yay, yeat another year of modem bingo, let's hope this is the last model where apple has to rely on 3d party midems in any way shape or firm
hmm I must have missed the news, has abbke been building cilicon foundries, with TSMSs 5nm tech inside and cept it secret? Oh sorry you meant chips designed by 3d oaries, never mind
Nah to low internal demand for steel unless the're going to insource the production of the shipping containers they use to ship all ther products from asia to Europe/ North American). Had you said aluminium factory however..
What’s next? Apple making their own micro LED screens?
so monopoly isn’t? apple has monopoly on iOS on iPhone, next monopoly on chips on iPhone, then screens... competitors should be allowed too To be on iPhone. /s
Ok laughing emote not withstanding, but is ut just me or has pistfixing gate to evrything made it totally meaningless. The original gate (Watergate if I'm not misstaken) firced a US president to resign, so a pretty major deal right? Maybe, just maybe we should reserve the gate sufix fore something of a similarly serious imoact. Bur I knoow I'm probably in a minority of 1 here, so why should I even bother? Well I just felt like it in the moment
I hope when this happens, iPads and Macs will be 5G ready without any additional cost over Wi-fi and the concept of having a separate Wi-Fi iPad is gone.
I think you missed the memo that the M-series chips are basically beefed up A-series chips. iPhones have already had Apple Silicon in them since day 1, there will be no sudden performance boost from them suddenly putting AS in iPhones, because it was already there. Making their own modem chips instead of using Qualcomm's won't make any performance difference either, that switch is simply about reducing costs, since Qualcomm charges a hefty profit since no one else can supply them at the required quality.
Irrelevant to you but very important to others. It is best in class. Not our fault it is being compared to classes way above it.
I have just gotten the iPhone 13 (mindblowing upgrade from my XR), and I'll exchange it to get a 14 Pro at 60% of the price, but if 2023 means Apple Modem, I might wait.
It's irrelevant in the context of comparing performance. Despite Apple's claim these laptops only get 14ish hours of battery life so you are going to have to plug them in. As soon as you need to charge it they are essentially desktops.
Wintel notebooks of equivalent spec get battery life less than 10 hours or in some cases are in some case really only usable tethered to a power point.
You are not wrong but having to charge every 14 hours a far better then having to charge every 8 hours or having no effective unplugged in performance.
Power draw and everything’s very important. Not just for use but also for having a quick recharge that does not lower the life expectancy of the battery over time (when compared to slow charge).
Why are you comparing it to notebooks though? These A chips need to be compared to a 3090 because the OP said they were comparable with Nvidea. Well, they have the 3090, and that far outperforms the A1 Max.
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I am very curious to see how Apple does making their own modems, in some ways this is harder than making your own processors. If they can match Qualcomms latest and greatest I’ll be very impressed, but I’m skeptical. I could see them having better efficiency due to being integrated and on the best TSMC process but matching Qualcomm is a tall order.
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Definitely buying the 14 for the X65 modem. I will wait a few generations before buying an Apple modem.