Apple is anticipated to make use of its personal modem chip in iPhones beginning in 2025, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says in a Medium put up.
In March DigiTimes Asia reported that firms similar to ASE Expertise Holding (ASEH) and Amkor Expertise competing for orders. The 2 firms have expertise packaging Qualcomm’s modem chips, the article provides.
Apple’s personal modem has been rumored for a while. In Might 2021 Kuo advised shoppers that the primary Apple-designed 5G modem was more likely to debut in 2023 iPhones. Clearly, that didn’t occur. Now it appears as if it will likely be a 12 months or extra earlier than this occurs.
Apple at present makes use of Qualcomm modems. Nonetheless, the tech big acquired Intel’s smartphone modem enterprise in July 2019 and added 2,200 Intel engineers to its chipset operations globally.
