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6toecat said:

Technically, the 4th Gen AppleTV A8 could play 4K content, but it's limited by it's 100BaseT ethernet and WiFi. This 5th Gen better have GbE or H265 compression. My best is both of those.

4K HEVC only requires 10Mbps or so, much less then the 100Mbps Ethernet or WiFi provided.

I think this signals something else entirely ( If the rumours is true ). 

In Apple's style, they will also launch 4K content on iTunes Stores, for 4K Movies to space / bandwidth efficient, you need HEVC. The next ( or really the current ) generation of Video Codec.

But HEVC has an ridiculously expensive license agreement, $25M Max/ year to MPEG-LA and $40M  Max/year to HEVC Advance. 10 times the cost of AVC / H.264 $6.5M Max / Year. The sudden appearance of HEVC Advance Group was the reason Apple dropped all mention of HEVC / H.265 from their product page, initially being listed as a technology for Facetime. Late last year, HEVC Advance group announce that HEVC software implementation to be free of Royalties charges, both encoder and decoder. So theoretically Apple could put in a powerful CPU within Apple Tv to use HEVC in software mode.     

Why hasnt Apple gone into property market?

wood1208 said:

This is tricky. Apple needs Qualcomm for 3G/4G modem chip so it will bee interesting how this law suit and future chip supply from Qualcom plays out. Story might change when 5G starts rolling out and older wireless tech is no longer needed.

They dont really "need". They could make one themselves or get it from Intel. The problem here is the patents involved, and how much they are paying for it.
One of the reason why you dont see Cheap Chinese Manufacture getting official launch of their phones in US or EU is simply patents issues.  

One of the good thing out of this lawsuit is it will finally reveal what the patents cost are. We have a pretty good guess of BOM cost, but no idea on the patents, especially wireless.

I am no aware of DDR4L roadmap from memory makers. Most current DDR4L sold are not true DDR4L. And Intel dont support LPDDR4 until 2018.

Unless they switch over to AMD, how they will get 32GB in 2017 is beyond me.