Yeah except for the fact that the iPhone 7 was two years ago. Do you seriously believe that Intel has sat on its butt for that time?
In my mind Qualcomm modems suck because I’ve had to deal with them on PCs and their drivers sucked, their signal sucked, and... well they just made my life hell getting them to do basic stuff.
Sure Intel might not be good now but look what happened when Apple got in bed with them and released the Intel Macs. Intel got it right with the Core series processors and ended up blowing away AMD who at the time had the better processors. Now Apple has a vested interest in getting Intel up to spec so the modems today will be far better than the brand new modems Intel had two years ago.
Yeah it's been 2 years and intel is barely able to get close to Snapdragon 820's modem performance. So they are currently two generations behind Qualcomm.
In your mind? LoL, we are not talking about PC's here we are talking about phone modems. Interesting deflection attempt.
Sure Intel might not be good now but look what happened when Apple got in bed with them and released the Intel Macs
Be serious man, Qualcomm is preparing to announce their first 5G Modem with the Snapdragon 855 at the end of 2018. Intel's hasn't even matched the modem in the Snapdragon 835.
Bye bye, Qualcomm. Maybe suing Apple was a bad idea, eh?
Yeah big win for Apple, not so much for future iPhone users but who cares Qualcomm makes the best mobile phone modems? These are just unimportant details.
How do you know they are the best? Qualcomm has a monopoly and blocks competitors with patents. That does not exactly breed cutting edge designs.
LoL simply check Snapdragon 845's modem performance. They are ahe best and the only other company that comes close is Huawei.
News out today is that "Intel will not provide 5G modems for Apple’s 2020 mobile devices, according to internal company communications reviewed by Calcalist, and people familiar with the matter. Apple has notified Intel it would not use a mobile modem developed by the chipmaker in its next-generation mobile device, Intel executives said in the communications. Further development of the modem component internally called “Sunny Peak” has been halted and the Intel team that's working on the product will be redirected to other efforts, the executives said"
Sunny Peak was the 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio chip being designed by Intel for Apple’s upcoming phones. So MediaTek it is for modems or have Apple and Qualcomm made progress towards settling their business matters?
News out today is that "Intel will not provide 5G modems for Apple’s 2020 mobile devices, according to internal company communications reviewed by Calcalist, and people familiar with the matter. Apple has notified Intel it would not use a mobile modem developed by the chipmaker in its next-generation mobile device, Intel executives said in the communications. Further development of the modem component internally called “Sunny Peak” has been halted and the Intel team that's working on the product will be redirected to other efforts, the executives said"
Sunny Peak was the 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio chip being designed by Intel for Apple’s upcoming phones. So MediaTek it is for modems or have Apple and Qualcomm made progress towards settling their business matters?
How weird that in that thread you stated this correctly (this is just about Sunny Peak and not about 5G modems in general) and here you ask the exact opposite question.
So it can still be Intel for 5G modems...just not integrated into one single 5G, Wi-Fi, BT chips.
News out today is that "Intel will not provide 5G modems for Apple’s 2020 mobile devices, according to internal company communications reviewed by Calcalist, and people familiar with the matter. Apple has notified Intel it would not use a mobile modem developed by the chipmaker in its next-generation mobile device, Intel executives said in the communications. Further development of the modem component internally called “Sunny Peak” has been halted and the Intel team that's working on the product will be redirected to other efforts, the executives said"
Sunny Peak was the 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio chip being designed by Intel for Apple’s upcoming phones. So MediaTek it is for modems or have Apple and Qualcomm made progress towards settling their business matters?
How weird that in that thread you stated this correctly (this is just about Sunny Peak and not about 5G modems in general) and here you ask the exact opposite question.
So it can still be Intel for 5G modems...just not integrated into one single 5G, Wi-Fi, BT chips.
Nothing at all weird about it. My initial post was made very shortly after the story broke and before AI even reported it. Shortly thereafter I freed up time to go searching for more information from the source itself which required a little more digging at the primary site.
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Yeah it's been 2 years and intel is barely able to get close to Snapdragon 820's modem performance. So they are currently two generations behind Qualcomm.
In your mind? LoL, we are not talking about PC's here we are talking about phone modems. Interesting deflection attempt.
Be serious man, Qualcomm is preparing to announce their first 5G Modem with the Snapdragon 855 at the end of 2018. Intel's hasn't even matched the modem in the Snapdragon 835.
They are ahe best and the only other company that comes close is Huawei.
Sunny Peak was the 5G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radio chip being designed by Intel for Apple’s upcoming phones. So MediaTek it is for modems or have Apple and Qualcomm made progress towards settling their business matters?
So it can still be Intel for 5G modems...just not integrated into one single 5G, Wi-Fi, BT chips.