(Reuters) -Qualcomm shares fell nearly 5% in early trading on Thursday as the looming loss of Apple as its biggest modem customer and higher dependency on premium smartphone chips outweighed its ...

Attempts to design an Apple modem chip to replace the Qualcomm radio chips used in iPhones have been ongoing since at least 2018 – but some five years later have been deemed a failure by engineers who ...

Earlier this year, Apple released the iPhone 16e with its new C1 5G modem. While tests revealed that it wasn't quite as capable as Qualcomm's counterpart for the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro models, it ...

Apple intended for the iPhone 15 to use an 5G modem designed in-house, and it has spent billions working to achieve that. Here's why it still has to buy modems from Qualcomm. Modems are hard. In 2010, ...

For years, Apple has built its iPhone technology to be lighter, faster and — importantly to the nation’s most valuable company — designed in-house. But according to a Wednesday article in the Wall ...

Apple is investing billions of dollars into developing an in-house cellular modem, but the project is not expected to yield immediate improvements for users, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports. In last ...

A recent report suggests Apple's in over its head with it's iPhone modem efforts, but — to borrow a phrase — we think differently. Apple knows what it's doing and knew what it was getting into from ...

Apple today announced the iPhone 16e, a $599 midrange smartphone with an A18 system-on-a-chip and an Apple C1 modem. The C1 modem is the first-ever Apple 5G modem, which required years of research and ...

Apple's first custom-designed modem chip, the C1, has finally made its debut in the iPhone 16e, which Apple announced on Wednesday. It's a significant milestone in the company's efforts to reduce ...

Before we look at how Apple's 5G modem is doing, let us briefly discuss how it all started. Apple's decision to develop its own 5G modem was started by a desire to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm. The ...