Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: badgolferman Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Mark Gurman on Apple's integrated 5G modem chip designs Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:30:09 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:30:09 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1648972"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jO4I6iRf7rrQpQQjlLCH4uQ+yH4= sha1:B2s8ztgnd712cNrJt8ii2Ekp5b8= X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXYFKRc6Da/09YgrV9M2NjBwR1eduwz8SFf9lG8SqLxqzqO02XacXBqkdYTqQ9NU1T+AF9/xam Bytes: 2095 Lines: 23 Peter wrote: > sms wrote: > >>> If I'm paying $1000+ for a premium phone, I want the 'best' components in >>> it. I don't care who made them, just that the components are reliable and >>> work well. >> >> It's not just the cost of buying modems from Qualcomm, since designing >> and building their own modems is costing them billions that they may >> never recover in savings. >> >> The bigger issue is being able to integrate a modem into their Bionic >> SOC. All the other SOC makers, Qualcomm, Samsung, Mediatek, and Huawei, >> have already integrated the modem, even on lower-end SOCs. This saves >> assembly cost and space on the board as well as increasing data transfer >> speeds between the modem and the processor. > > Do you think nospam would say that integrating a 5G modem onto the SOC is > not needed and not wanted because Apple can't figure out how to do it? > That man sure left his mark. Here we are still talking about him years after his disappearance.