It is rumored that the new iPhone 5 would have a 4G LTE chip similar to that of the iPad 3 tablet and Qualcomm would produce this component for the future device. Those from Digitimes I claim that Qualcomm is currently preparing to produce the first 4G LTE chips for the iPhone 5 terminal, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was chosen for this process. Qualcomm intends to use a 28 nm manufacturing process for these chips, and this suggests that we are talking about small components that manage energy efficiently.
Chip vendors including Qualcomm, Broadcom, STMicroelectronics, NXP, Texas Instruments (TI) and OmniVision have reportedly started stocking their solutions used for Apple's next-generation iPhone slated to hit the market in the second half of 2012, according to industry sources. Qualcomm alone needs about 10,000 28nm 12-inch wafers, or one-third of 28nm capacity at TSMC, for the production of 4G chips for iPhones, not to mention the additional supply of 4G chips to other clients, revealed the sources.
Since a few months ago there were rumors that Qualcomm was going to manufacture these chips, now we have the first possible confirmation of this and in the fall we will find out if the rumors are true. It is quite safe to implement compatibility with 4G LTE networks in the iPhone 5, but the big problem is that in Romania you will not be able to use the device on these networks at the national level because no major telephone operator has launched such a network.
