Re: iPhone SE 4 Launch is Imminent - we were right all along

On 2025-02-08 11:45, Marion wrote:

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 04:56:28 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote :
 

With that ridiculously insecure IOS design in mind, here are highlights:
... snip ... u. Apple is expected to debut its in-house modem in the iPhone SE 4
v. Which, much like Apple's Intel/Qualcomm modem fiasco, should be fun

 Forbes has a discussion about the modem which should be interesting, as
I've always shown Apple's chip designers to be sophomoric, at best, given
almost every SoC produced by Apple ends up with unpatchable flaws in it.

Unpatchable flaws are a reality of chip design, doofus.

 *This article has been updated with details on Apple's new 5G modem*
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 "Update, Saturday Feb 8, 2025: One interesting quirk of launching earlier
is the feedback Apple will get from the iPhone SE's 5G modem. 9to5Mac
reports that the SE will debut Apple's in-house modem rather than the
Qualcomm chipset that has served countless iPhone models over the last
decade. This will be Apple's first modem following the purchase of Intel's
smartphone modem division for $1 billion in July 2019.
 Apple will be keen to bring the modem stack under its complete control
rather than following Qualcomm's roadmap and timescales. The iPhone SE will
be the first public step in this process. No doubt, a further step will be
taken in Sept 2025, with at least one of the new iPhone 17 models coming
with an Apple modem.
 The early launch of the iPhone SE in late February, compared to potentially
mid-April, which was previously discussed, will give Apple user data from
the modem some six weeks earlier, which will give more than enough time to
contribute to the final design of the iPhone 17 family."
 Given Apple has never designed a best-in-class SoC in its entire history,
it will be interesting to see how this modem turns out, shall it not?

Apple Silicon CPUs are best-in-class, doofus.