In a perfect world, according to Apple's vision, all the components of the iPhone, and probably its other products as well, are homemade.
And we know that for several years now, the Californian firm has wanted to design more and more components internally for Apple-branded devices. The Ax chip on iPhone is an already old illustration of this. More recently, the move to the Mx chip on Mac shows this better. And rumors have already announced in the past that the Cupertino giant would also seek to designits own battery controllers. In the latter case, nothing is yet certain or even imaginable in terms of time to arrival on the market. On the other hand, there is a new homemade componentplanned for iPhone soon. This is themodem 5G.
This in-house design project for the 5G modem was born following Intel's withdrawal from the 5G smartphone chip market in 2017. At that time, it was rumored that Apple would have tried to buy Intel's 5G modem division. . Ultimately, this operation did not take place. In any case, already at the time, analysts revealed this desire on the part of the Californian to work on a homemade 5G modem.
And now a new report from MacRumors, based on information from renowned analysts at the Barclays firm, has just announced that the first Apple product with an Apple 5G modem would arrive in 2023. The component would support 5G sub-6Ghz and mm-Wave. Previous reports were betting on the arrival of such an Apple chip in 2022 on iPhone. But it seems that we still have to count on Qualcomm modems for 2 generations of iPhone.
The integration of an Apple 5G modem could providesize advantage: allow Apple tobetter control the energy consumption of the 5G connection, still greedy on that side.
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