Apple is planning to bring 5G to the iPhone next spring, more than a year behind some rivals. The company can ill afford to let the timing slip.
The Trump administration proposed new regulations on Tuesday to toughen national security reviews of foreign investments in US companies involved in technology and infrastructure.
Samsung and Huawei took turns announcing new mobile processors at the IFA technology show in Berlin last week, and the big thing the new chips have in common is an integrated 5G modem.
Qualcomm has said that telecommunications service providers need to jump on new technology coming to Wi-Fi or risk losing the chance to exploit the flood of data being created by their customers.
Apple is to acquire chip maker Intel’s smartphone modem division for $1-billion to bolster its attempt to build its own line of 5G chips and lessen its dependence on Qualcomm.
Apple is negotiating to buy Intel’s struggling cellular modem unit, said a person familiar with the matter.
Apple is strongly rumoured to be putting its standard iPhone model on a diet next year, releasing a 5G version with a 5.45-inch screen, down from 5.8 inches in the current Xs model.
As Huawei comes under unrelenting pressure from the Trump administration, it has one advantage that the US can’t undermine: a vast, global portfolio of patents on critical technology.
AMD will license its graphics designs to Samsung for use in smartphones and tablets, taking its technology into a new market and helping differentiate products from the world’s biggest smartphone maker.
US President Donald Trump’s move to put Huawei on an export blacklist threatens to shake the entire telecommunications industry.