Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business

Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem C... by tolqen on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:09PM (#20503393)

Nobody except Apple bought the Intel parts anyway (possibly because they were absolute flaming garbage relative to Qualcomm’s products), which is why we’re in this position in the first place.

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Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem C... by wycy on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:29AM (#20505890)

I have an iPhone with an Intel modem and can confirm: it is flaming garbage. It's fine in good service areas but in the event of subpar service it basically just craps out entirely. Qualcomm modems seem to handle the same areas just fine.

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Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem C... by wl on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @01:12PM (#20508341)

Telit's LE910 series uses Intel parts. For my uses, they've been very nice.

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Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem C... by dnautics on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:49PM (#20503821)

Wasnt ericsson supposed to buy a buncha intel modems?

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Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem C... by StudentStuff on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @02:31AM (#20504860)

IIRC that deal was Ericsson fabbing their LTE & 5G basestations on Intel's 10nm process, but Intel's 10nm process can't produce large working chips in volume (and likely never will), which has kneecapped Ericsson as a cellular vendor.

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Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem C... by godzillabrennus on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:10AM (#20505016)

TIL Ericsson still exists.

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Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem C... by TorKlingberg on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @05:15AM (#20505435)

Ericsson is one of the biggest vendors of telecom network equipment, including 4G base stations. They sold the phone business to Sony years ago.

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