Love to play computer games On December 13, it was reported by foreign media Gsmaena that Apple is currently developing its own modem (hereinafter referred to as baseband) for future new iPhones. In the past, Apple only used Qualcomm to make smart phones. Later, it changed to Qualcomm and Intel, each accounting for half. This year, Apple only cooperated with Intel, abandoned Qualcomm, and also sued Qualcomm.

In the future, Apple hopes to make its own baseband for iPhone, just like it develops its own CPU and GPU. Recently, a "person who listened to Apple's plan briefing" said that the company really has a project being actively promoted to manufacture its own baseband for iPhone.

Apple's previous recruitment trends can also support the above facts. In November this year, the company recruited a group of engineers in San Diego, the United States (where Qualcomm headquarters is located), in order to improve their capabilities in the field of AI chips, wireless chips and communication baseband (modems). Apple's recruitment of 5G baseband talents began as early as May this year.

It should be noted that because the process of developing the baseband is very complicated, it may take three years for the iPhone to use the baseband that Apple has really developed itself. The earliest possible time is 2020, but 2021 will be more realistic. We know that the signal of the new iPhone is not very good at present. Maybe the iPhone with self-developed baseband can solve this problem in the future.

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