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

On 8/18/2024 7:48 PM, badgolferman wrote:
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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.
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