In the past few months, we have been hearing that Apple will get rid of the dependence on Qualcomm's LTE baseband chip for reasons that we may all be aware of, the two companies fell over the charge for royalties, while in about 5 Weeks ago, there is news that this year's new iPhone will use Intel and MediaTek's LTE baseband chip, and now well-known Apple analyst Guo Ming-ko reconfirmed this point.
According to the latest investor report by KGI Securities analyst Kuo Ming-kuo, Apple will equip all new iPhones with the LTE baseband provided by Intel this year and its long-term relationship with Qualcomm will end this year.
Kuo Ming-kuo wrote in the report: 'We expect that Intel will exclusively supply the baseband chip for the new iPhone released in the second half of 2018, and Qualcomm will not receive an order.'
It is worth mentioning that in the past test, equipped with Qualcomm baseband chip iPhone in the baseband performance than the Intel baseband chip equipped with iPhone, I do not know Apple's approach will allow users to buy it? In addition Guo Ming 錤 still The report pointed out that Qualcomm may also make concessions in the patent dispute to get Apple's orders, but this still has time to prove.
