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Subject: Re: Mark Gurman on Apple's integrated 5G modem chip designs
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 09:30:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Peter <confused@nospam.net> wrote:
> 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?
> 

That man sure left his mark. Here we are still talking about him years
after his disappearance.