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Intel Will Reportedly Land Apple As a Modem Chip Customer

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-partners dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Mo-Dem? by ledow · · Score: 5, Informative

    Modulator-demodulator. It doesn't have any particular meaning and is the more generic word.

    Your Ethernet port is a modem.
    Your wireless card is a modem.
    Technically, things like TV cards are modems.

    A modem does not equate to something that only talks over a telephone landline.

    But then, even so, the last few generations of GPRS, 3G chips actually speak an AT Hayes *MODEM* command set in order to ring, send text messages, dial-up to the Internet etc. I can't speak for 4G but I'd be shocked if your 4G dongle doesn't actually just present itself as a very fast modem.