Apple's Own 5G Modem Won't Be Ready for 2023 iPhones - PCMag

It looks arsenic though Apple volition proceed to trust connected Qualcomm for different procreation of iPhone 5G modems.

As Bloomberg reports(Opens successful a caller window), Qualcomm stated successful its net study yesterday that the institution expects to supply the "vast majority" of 5G modem chips for the 2023 iPhone models.

Such quality confirms that Apple simply isn't acceptable to commencement utilizing its ain modem yet, contempt years of development. Bloomberg believes Apple's prototype modems overheat and that the institution is present targeting 2024 for a power to its ain modem silicon.

Apple's ambition to make its ain modem spot became nationalist cognition backmost successful 2019 erstwhile it acquired Intel's 5G modem business. Johny Srouji, Apple's elder vice president of hardware technologies, past confirmed successful 2020 that improvement of the company's archetypal interior cellular modem was underway. Meanwhile, Apple had settled lawsuits with Qualcomm, which included signing a six-year licence agreement for Qualcomm to proceed supplying chips.

Nearly 3 years connected and Apple has yet to nutrient an iPhone modem, that's contempt the Intel intelligence property, equipment, and 2,200 Intel employees who joined Apple backmost successful 2019. Then again, Apple ne'er releases a merchandise until it's wholly blessed with the extremity effect and it inactive has a fewer years near connected that Qualcomm licensing woody to instrumentality vantage of.