According to foreign media company Bloomberg, foreign investment bank Gus Richard, an analyst at the Northland Capital City, analyzed and predicted in an investor report that future Apple baseband chips may abandon Intel and Qualcomm and use MediaTek products.
It is reported that before the iPhone baseband chip order is finalized, MediaTek will first take the order of the upcoming HomePod Wi-Fi chip. This is the first time MediaTek has cooperated with Apple. Although MediaTek has not confirmed it, there are still Taiwanese media forecasts that MediaTek will be the fastest. In 2019, it obtained orders for iPhone baseband chips.
In addition, at the beginning of this month, Chen Guanzhou, general manager of MediaTek at the Taipei International Computer Show, revealed the news of the 5G modem chip M70: 'MediaTek's 5G Helio M70 modem will be ready next year. We have already conducted in-depth cooperation with Nokia, Huawei and NTT Docomo. We hope to bring you technology in place next year, stable M70 products.
The market expects that MediaTek's 5G baseband chip will mature in 2019. It may not be groundless to enter the apple supply chain. However, it is not ruled out that Apple will use this pressure to give Qualcomm and Intel pressure. For Qualcomm, Intel and MediaTek are gradually Become a strong competitor in the field of communication chips.
The report further stated that if MediaTek grabbed the Apple baseband chip, the news would affect the 2019 iPhone product. At that time, it will form a baseband chip procurement solution based on MediaTek, and Intel will give up Qualcomm completely.
