While Apple uses its homegrown processors to power the iPhone, it relies
on modem chips from Qualcomm, especially in the U.S., where rivals don't support technologies used by Sprint and Verizon.
Not exact matches
Fast Company's source claims that the yield rates
on Intel's
modem chips — that is, the percentage of the
chips that are actually usable — are very low at around 50 %.
Before that he was co-founder of Icera, a 3G cellular
modem chip company, where he led Sales and Marketing and was
on the Board of Directors.
Since the
chip comes with Qualcomm's integrated cellular
modem baked in, the Snapdragon 835 - powered PCs will get cellular connectivity for internet
on the go.
But because Intel's
modems do not feature gigabit speeds and Apple wants to prepare for a strategy without Qualcomm, the speed of the faster
chips would be limited to offer the same performance
on all iPhones.
SamMobile has posted a new report that confirms the Note 5 will feature 4 GB of LP - DDR4 RAM and will run
on a brand - new chipset called the Exynos 7422 SoC that «will be the company's first true single -
chip solution (ePOP) combining an octa - core 64 - bit CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, and the Shannon 333 LTE
modem in the same package.»
Especially with the Tegra K1
chip that powers the Nexus 9 using an off - die
modem it will be interesting to see how battery life
on the LTE model holds up.
Qualcomm provided CDMA - capable
chips — to wit, it is the X12 LTE
modem that can be found
on the Snapdragon 820 — for iPhones destined for the US, China and Japan while other territories got iPhones with Intel
modems.
Apple is already rumored to be working
on its own
modem chips, some of which it already gets from Intel.
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.