Apple doesn't appear to own the patents to make its own
mobile modem chips, an area in which it has increasingly been shifting from Qualcomm (qcom) to chips made by Intel in an effort to cut costs.
Not exact matches
Qualcomm and Apple are facing off in federal court over Qualcomm's licensing for
modem chips, which provide
mobile data connectivity to devices like the iPhone.
Some of the company's prior
mobile efforts have lagged, although it won an important victory convincing Apple (aapl) to use one of its 4G
modem chips in versions of the new iPhone 7.
Qualcomm, an early pioneer in
mobile phone
chips, supplies so - called
modem chips to phone makers such as Apple, Samsung and LG that help the phones connect to wireless data networks.
It's unclear if
mobile phone operators are in any trouble for selling ZTE phones, but since the
mobile device manufacturer can't export components such as Qualcomm
modem chips that are necessary to make those phones work, ZTE may not be able to make phones anyway.
They have come up with a new
mobile device
modem (MDM) 9 × 00 series
chips which, along with its latest Gobi 4000 platform, promises to make the iPad 4G compatible.
In terms of volumes, the Qualcomm shipped 213 million
mobile station
modem (MSM)
chips in the quarter versus guidance of 195 — 210 million.
The
chip will also be the first
mobile chip in the world to have a built - in gigabit - class LTE
modem, while the built - in camera ISP (image signal processor) will support smooth zoom, fast autofocus and «true to life colors.»
Qualcomm, the world's biggest
mobile chipmaker, has announced a range of products at the company's analyst meeting today, including a new Snapdragon Wear platform for wearables, the first commercial gigabit LTE
modem for
mobile devices, and several new low to mid-range
mobile chips.
MediaTek's System - on -
Chip mobile processor business has been stepped up in the last eighteen months with the company having pushed into eight, or octa, core processors and into the new 64 - bit architecture, plus developing its own integrated 3G and LTE basebands, or
modems.