Re: Mark Gurman on Apple's integrated 5G modem chip designs

sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:

If I'm paying $1000+ for a premium phone, I want the 'best' components in
it. I don't care who made them, just that the components are reliable and
work well.

 
It's not just the cost of buying modems from Qualcomm, since designing
and building their own modems is costing them billions that they may
never recover in savings.
 
The bigger issue is being able to integrate a modem into their Bionic
SOC. All the other SOC makers, Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and Huawei,
have already integrated the modem, even on lower-end SOCs. This saves
assembly cost and space on the board as well as increasing data transfer
speeds between the modem and the processor.

Do you think nospam would say that integrating a 5G modem onto the SOC is
not needed and not wanted because Apple can't figure out how to do it?