Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage

Re:Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage by dmishe on Sunday October 11, 2015 @03:47PM (#10370649)

>radio interface (RF) chips that traditionally were off limits to all but the most advanced chip makers like Qualcomm. These chips rival CPUs in complexity.

This is interesting, I want to know more about why are they so complex?

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Re:Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage by stevedc3 on Sunday October 11, 2015 @03:55PM (#10370670)

Analog circuitry is the most complex in chip design. It's part art part science. At the end of the day radio waves are traveling through the air and a lot of things can go wrong.

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Re:Apple’s Insurmountable Platform Advantage by kragen on Sunday October 11, 2015 @04:14PM (#10370748)

Then read http://designinganalogchips.com/.

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