khaskhabar.com : Friday, March 03, 2023 1:30 PM
San Francisco. Chip maker Qualcomm’s CEO said it is hoping Apple can move to making in-house 5G modem chips for its 2024 iPhone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023 in Barcelona.
According to a CNBC report, although Apple’s most recent iPhone 14 models use Qualcomm modems, the company has been attempting to go it alone in the wireless connectivity market for several years.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said, “We’re not planning any for 2024, my planning assumption is we’re not going to provide (Apple) a modem in 2024, but that’s their decision.”
The report said that the tech giant bought Intel’s modem business in 2019 and there was speculation that it would start using in-house parts this year.
Amon said Qualcomm told investors in 2021 that it did not expect to provide modems for iPhones in 2023, but Apple then decided to continue for another year.
As the report noted, however, he did not confirm whether Apple would pay Qualcomm the QTL license if it moved to its own modems, but said the royalties were ‘independent of providing a chip’.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm has announced that its Snapdragon satellite technology is coming to most Android smartphones.
Upcoming smartphones from Honor, Motorola, Nothing, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi will be powered by ‘Snapdragon Satellite’, the company said.(IANS)
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