In reply to a post by jchamier:

Nearly 2 years old thread, nice find.
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Cheers. Almost 3 years! I remember discussing it, just couldn't find what thread...finally had to enlist Gary and Sergey to help 😅

Of course we know once Mr Gurman has writ in Bloomberg, then it's more or less gospel truth! I did think it would take them a while, but six years is a very long time to wait for the first products to get to market. Was the $1B price Apple paid Intel a 'good' investment?

Bit of deja vu in that article, with current events with ARM and Qualcomm, back to a 2019 link about the infamous Apple-Qualcomm lawsuit settlement too. Funny how history often repeats...

Edited by Pheasant (Mon 09-Dec-24 11:39:26)

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Cheers. Almost 3 years! I remember discussing it, just couldn't find what thread...finally had to enlist Gary and Sergey to help 😅

Of course we know once Mr Gurman has writ in Bloomberg, then it's more or less gospel truth! I did think it would take them a while, but six years is a very long time to wait for the first products to get to market. Was the $1B price Apple paid Intel a 'good' investment?

I suspected the reason Intel got out of cellular was the complexity of making a 5G modem was somewhat different to making 2G/3G/4G, and Intel's support for the (at the time) US required CDMA for 3G was always second class, but Samsung famously used Qualcomm modems in the Galaxy S models for USA due to this. Apple has the money, and the determination to solve the problem, and if Gurman is right... they have. Which will let them eventually integrate into the A-series or M-series SoCs in time.

Bit of deja vu in that article, with current events with ARM and Qualcomm, back to a 2019 link about the infamous Apple-Qualcomm lawsuit settlement too. Funny how history often repeats...

Yeah, lawyers always get rich !

Thread resurrection time again. 😅

Apple reveals C1, its first in-house 5G iPhone modem, replacing Qualcomm

I’ll start a new thread in the Apple section with a link to the specs as published by Apple.

Edit: here we go…
https://forums.thinkbroadband.com/mac/f/4772839-appl...

Edited by Pheasant (Thu 20-Feb-25 11:02:28)