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Subject: Re: Mark Gurman on Apple's integrated 5G modem chip designs
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sms <scharf.steven@geemail.com> 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?