Apple’s Own Modem Could Launch In 2024 As It Develops New WiFi And Bluetooth Chip
Leading iPhone maker Apple has had a long-term dream of creating its own
modem for a while now. But that dream could soon be a reality as the
tech giant looks to reduce reliance on the likes of Qualcomm.
Thanks to Bloomberg,
we’ve got the news that a switchover may soon begin as early as the
year 2024. Moreover, Apple may begin developing a new WiFi and Bluetooth
chip too. This in turn means we could soon see it ditching the likes of
Qualcomm and Broadcom too. The former and Apple have been linked to a
new legal battle regarding patents, licensing, and plenty of
disagreements related to modern-day chips.
It’s true that such
legal cases were battled until the last minute and now, the tech giant
is making it clear how it wants to focus on the likes of creating new
technology so iPhone and iPad devices may benefit.
To further
enhance such efforts, the tech giant completed acquiring the modem
business in the year 2019. This has provided the firm with greater
access to the likes of engineering and a huge collection of patents
linked to the likes of cellular technology. Still, the iPhone maker
would be required to license new patents arising from Qualcomm as well
as Ericsson. This is even if it plans on making a switch toward modems
situated in-house.
This new type of modem by Apple was designed
for a release to occur by early next year but as per new reports from
Bloomberg, there might be some development hiccups on the way that are
pushing this back toward the latter part of 2024 or even post-that date.
Apple
recently announced how it's a part of the new shift and it really hopes
its new modem chip could be out and about by this year’s end. It wishes
to swap the likes of Qualcomm electronics as per unidentified sources
in the firm because for now, the plans are undercover. The tech giant
would be seen replacing this as early as this year but as per
development snags, it has been pushed back and it’s currently behind the
designated timeline.
Apple is also working hard to ditch the
likes of Broadcom. It hopes to do this with the launch of a Bluetooth
chip and Wi-Fi combination that may debut as early as 2025. It is
similarly working on the likes of developing a follow-up version of a
chip that merges cellular modem with Bluetooth, and even Wi-Fi into make
one single chip.
Apple has been placing heavy reliance on
Broadcom for things like iPhone components and that entails chips linked
to radio-frequency and different charging components. But the tech
giant claims to be working hard on making such parts too, as per
Bloomberg.
We’ve seen reports of Apple making a switch take
place several times now but this is really the first time that we’re
hearing more about plans for in-house Bluetooth as well as Wi-Fi chips.
And this is linked to Tim Cook’s belief that Apple should be at the
forefront in terms of producing parts of its iPhone device itself.