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Intel Will Reportedly Land Apple As a Modem Chip Customer
itwbennett writes After so many years of spinning its wheels, Intel is reportedly about to make a big step into mobile by providing Apple with LTE modem chips for its hot-selling iPhone. The news comes courtesy of VentureBeat, which cites two separate sources of the plans. The story says Apple will begin using Intel's new 7360 LTE modem processor in place of a Qualcomm chip, which has been there for a few generations.
H1Bs? That would explain a lot. Qualcomm until the early 2000s did incredible stuff. Now they pump out a stream of crap that destroyed voice comm by imprinting over compressing badly designed codecs causing voice to be unintelligible unless the speaker is Asian.
Can you please provide the citation for :
1. Qualcomm chips comes with badly designed codecs which cause voice to be unintelligible
and
2. ... and that the same badly designed codecs are intelligent enough to let not degrading Asians' voices
Thank you for your cooperation !
Probably cheaper. Apple is shaving a few cents off which are not passed to the customers.
Yes, it's certainly in some ways better:
Max speed 150 Mbps -> 450 Mbps through more aggregation.
Supported bands from "up to" 20 to "up to" 29.
Reception? No idea.
Power consumption? No idea.
Size? No idea.
Price? No idea, but clearly it's a premium chip.
But I'm guessing Intel really wants to break into this market so they might have given Apple a good price, after all they get to ship in a huge volume. Assuming this is actually true though, I'll call it speculation until it actually launches.
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Of course it doesn't. Because, you know - the chip doesn't have to filter out noise and stuff that isn't a relevant part of the signal on accompanying bands/harmonics.
Genius indeed.
Intel stock is a screaming buy. P/E of 13, yielding 3%, great growth prospects, and the best chip foundry on the planet.
an ill wind that blows no good
Probably cheaper. Apple is shaving a few cents off which are not passed to the customers.
"Cost Reduction" in a BOM is NEVER directly passed-on to customers.
Stop with the hate, will ya?
Or more accurately, the marketing types assess the "price point" of the device they want to sell. The engineers job is to figure out how to maximize the profit (difference between cost of goods, and "price point"). The price point MAY drop, if price wars are a factor and companies think they have a chance to profit enough to run their competitor out of the market, believing their engineers/supply chain have "innovated" more than the other guy.
That's not the apple market though, they are happy being luxury goods and letting the chinese shitshops duke it out on price and destroy each other.