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Title: News: Apple designing iPhones, iPads that ditch Qualcomm modem chips
Post by: HCK on October 31, 2017, 04:05:24 pm
News: Apple designing iPhones, iPads that ditch Qualcomm modem chips

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               Amid its bitter legal fight with Qualcomm over patent royalties, Apple is moving to eliminate Qualcomm’s components from the iPhone and iPad as early as next year, The Wall Street Journal reports. Sources familiar with the matter said Apple is considering using modem chips from Intel and possibly MediaTek exclusively since Qualcomm has been withholding key software used to test its chips in prototype iPads and iPhones. Qualcomm disputes that…

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