1000 Intel employees develop the iPhone 7 modem at the moment for the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, Intel 7360 being the name of the component that will be found in certain terminals produced by the Apple company in 2016 for sale.
Intel 7360 modem is able to offer Internet browsing speeds of up to 450 Mbps for 4G LTE networks with support for up to 29 LTE frequencies, the implementation of the Intel component in iPhone 7 si 7 iPhone Plus being rumored for a long time already.
Intel 7360 modem is in the development process at the moment and will go into production by the end of this year, so Apple would have enough time to test it before iPhone 7 si 7 iPhone Plus to be launched on the market next fall.
Now if you ask why 1000 Intel employees develop this modem for iPhone 7, well the company allocates substantial resources to the project because Apple is an extremely important company with a very popular smartphone, so the component must be almost perfect.
At the moment, the Apple company uses Qualcomm modems for iPhone terminals and iPad tablets, so the new Intel modems will reach only a part of the future iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, and recent rumors claimed that the terminals in Asia will have the new component.
Intel now has a thousand people or more working to outfit a 2016 iPhone with its lauded 7360 LTE modem chip, sources say. If all goes well, Intel may end up providing both the modem and the fabrication for a new Apple system on a chip.
The creation of a modem for the iPhone 7 is only the first step in a complex plan by the Intel company, which wants to produce including the future AX chips for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, being able to even replace Samsung.
With Intel's help, Apple is interested in integrating 4G LTE modems into the future AX chips, thanks to a 14nm manufacturing process developed by Intel for its factories, this being only part of the whole story.
Intel has also developed a 10nm manufacturing process for the production of chips dedicated to mobile terminals, Apple being extremely interested in it, so now we could see the initiation of a long-term partnership that would eventually bring out Samsung from the list of Apple partners, at least for certain components.
