iPhone. Bad news comes today for the most popular phone model in the world, but more for the Apple company than for the customers who will buy these products. It is known that for years and years the Apple company has been working on the development of 5G modems for its iPhone phones, but it seems that they will not be ready until many years from now, that is, somewhere around 2025, not in 2020, as the Americans hoped.
iPhone. Apple tried to rely on Intel for the 5G modems in the iPhones that it will launch in 2020, but it is also developing its own modems in parallel, but none of these "tracks" have yielded "fruits". Intel was unable to develop 5G modems, and Apple gave up collaborating with this company, even though its managers were dissatisfied with the way the component development process was evolving since 2017.
iPhone. BAD news for the Apple Company
iPhone. Giving up on Intel in 2019, those from Apple continue with the development of their own 5G modems for mobile phones, but recent information regarding this project says that they will not be able to be used until 2025. Hundreds of engineers are working within Apple on 5G modems for iPhone phones, and despite their efforts, 5 years of development are still needed to be able to implement them in iPhone phones, and until then, Qualcomm is saving those from Apple.
For Apple, meanwhile, Intel's troubles are a reminder of why it has long sought to reduce its reliance on outside companies for key components inside its devices. Indeed, its multiyear modem agreement with Qualcomm may only be temporary since Apple has a large in-house team developing its own modem, as The Information has previously reported. But that in-house effort appears to be farther from fruition than some chip experts have predicted. In interviews with prospective hires for the team, Apple has told engineers that they expect to have their own modem ready by 2025, a person familiar with the discussions said.
iPhone. Practically, Apple is once again put between the "hammer and the anvil", because it is obliged to work with Qualcomm, although it does not agree with its business practices, as is the case with Samsung. Apple managed to get rid of its dependence on Samsung to a certain extent with the help of TSMC, but it will not be able to get rid of Qualcomm too soon because it is still very far from having its own modems for iPhone phones.
