{"id":30951,"date":"2023-03-03T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/qualcomm-assumes-iphones-will-switch-to-apple-modems-in-2024.html"},"modified":"2023-03-03T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:53:27","slug":"qualcomm-assumes-iphones-will-switch-to-apple-modems-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/qualcomm-assumes-iphones-will-switch-to-apple-modems-in-2024.html","title":{"rendered":"Qualcomm Assumes iPhones Will Switch to Apple Modems in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Qualcomm dropped a bit of an inside-baseball bombshell at Mobile World Congress on Wednesday: It isn’t planning on supplying Apple with modems for its 2024 iPhones. This aligns with an analyst prediction from earlier in the week that Apple intends to use its own in-house modems starting next year with the iPhone SE 4, its next affordable handset.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“We’re making no plans for 2024, my planning assumption is we’re not providing [Apple] a modem in ’24, but it’s their decision to make,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon\u00a0told CNBC<\/a>\u00a0at MWC in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Apple could change its mind about using Qualcomm chips, but this intel suggests that the tech giant is moving closer to a long-expected goal of using its own hardware to connect iPhones to mobile networks and satellites. Qualcomm’s comments put the ball in Apple’s court.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the year, noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said the company had canceled<\/a> the fourth generation of its iPhone SE line. But now he believes the phone is back on track<\/a> and may use the first of Apple’s internally developed modems, or 5G baseband chips, Kuo tweeted in a lengthy thread of predictions.<\/p>\n

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Rumors have swirled for years<\/a> that Apple has wanted to build its own baseband chips, which handle the iPhone’s antenna functions. Back in 2021, Kuo predicted<\/a> that Apple may stop using Qualcomm’s silicon in favor of its own baseband chips in as little as two years, though that effort seemingly stalled<\/a> as Apple struggled to develop its own connectivity hardware.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kuo’s newest prediction suggests Apple may have solved at least some of its issues with producing an in-house baseband chip, though he noted that it will only support sub-6 5G, the midband set of 5G frequencies that most carriers around the world use for their 5G networks.<\/p>\n

But since it’s still unclear if Apple’s baseband chips will support the higher-speed millimeter-wave flavor of 5G<\/span> or satellite communications for the Emergency SOS feature, Kuo doesn’t know whether the first flagship iPhones that could use the chips — the iPhone 16 series coming in 2024 — will have them.<\/p>\n

If Apple starts producing baseband 5G chips for the iPhone SE 4 in the first half of 2024, then those chips could come to the iPad and Apple Watch next, Kuo said. That would mean much fewer orders for Qualcomm connectivity chips.<\/p>\n

Aside from the new silicon, the iPhone SE 4 could pack an OLED display instead of an LCD screen, six years after the first flagship iPhone switched to an OLED display with the iPhone X in 2017.<\/p>\n

Apple didn’t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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