Apple Still Eyes Intel's Modem Business

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by craigjb • 7 years ago

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PaulHoule2• 7 years ago

Even if Intel can't make decent modems they probably own patents that can make it harder for others to make modems.

shmerl2• 7 years ago

Which is a good reason not to sell them to Apple. Apple and patents is a bad combination.

duxup2• 7 years ago

Is there a tech company who is good with them?

scarface744• 7 years ago

The patents related to 5G are mostly under FRAND since they are required as part of the 5G standard and Qualcomm owns most of them.

Who besides Qualcomm even has to technical know how and the scale to create chips at a profit besides Qualcomm and in the future Apple?

sct202• 7 years ago

Mediatek and Huawei (RIP)

AFascistWorld• 7 years ago

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lathiat• 7 years ago

The 4G patents were also under FRAND. Didn’t stop Qualcomm from failing to actually license under those terms. The judge specifically found so in the case.

rasz2• 7 years ago

Almost everyone. Radio nowadays is just a RF frontend + ADC/DAC block + DSP. RF is the magic grey beards part, but can be quickly solved with off the shelf parts. Conversion is also easy off the shelf, or even integrated into rf chip. DSP is where patents come into play and dragons live during implementation phase, but its more or less all software, Apple is good at software.

Apple Still Eyes Intel's Modem Business

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