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Apple has started work on its own modem

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Peter 07 February 2019

Apple Mobile hardware

Apple has been burnt by its reliance on other companies for modems, so to avoid issues with dual sourcing and even sale bans Cupertino wants to design in-house modems. This has already started under the leadership of Johny Srouji, the SVP of hardware technologies.

Srouji has been at Apple since 2008 when he was a lead chip designer, working on the excellent A-series chipsets and later on the proprietary chip used in the AirPods. The company has posted job listings in San Diego, which just happens to be the home of Qualcomm.

Don’t expect to see an Apple modem in the 2019 iPhones or even the 2020 ones, development will take years (and hundreds of millions of dollars). Especially since the modem will have to support not only the well understood 4G, but the emerging 5G tech as well.

In the end, all of this could end up saving Apple money – Qualcomm charged $30 for a modem and wanted $7.50 in royalties on top of that (these royalties are part of what triggered the legal war). Also, integrating the modem into the chipset is more power efficient (that’s the case for Snapdragon, Exynos and Kirin chips chips).

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  • abigfanoftechs
  • pLY
  • 10 Feb 2019

It doesn't matter! Qualcomm owns the patents. Apple will still have to pay.

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  • Anonymous
  • 3DR
  • 10 Feb 2019

Apple stole qualcomms designs and supplied them to Intel. So they can easily use those designs themselves for in house modem.

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  • Anonymous
  • 3x4
  • 10 Feb 2019

Are you sure you haven't been ripping off Trainspotting??? I'm sending Begbie around...

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