Now, Qualcomm is taking further steps in California to put pressure on Intel to hand over what it agreed to provide: A detailed blueprint of Intel's cellular modems used in Apple's latest smartphones.
'After many meetings and written exchanges, on May 18th, Intel seems willing to cooperate to hand over the design of the iPhone-related components for 2018, with limited technical information. 'The US Federal Court file said. Qualcomm also agreed Limit the scope of their documentation requirements and allow the agreed solutions to speed up.
'But Intel has returned to its original point. Intel has not handed over the material, and it remains the same after two months. 'Qualcomm insiders complained that Intel refused to comply with the subpoena and provided testimony on Chipzilla's current RF hardware.
According to documents submitted by Qualcomm, Intel's reason for this is that the requirements are too cumbersome, in part because some of Qualcomm's people want to provide testimony from people living abroad, but Qualcomm counters that the testimony can be obtained through video conferencing.
Previously, Apple used Qualcomm and Intel's baseband chipsets in the iPhone. In addition to Qualcomm-based handheld devices, the performance is superior to Chipzilla's modem, and other differences are not obvious to users.
Qualcomm believes that Intel should cooperate because Intel has not disclosed the RF components of 2018 - SMARTi7 RF transceiver and XMM 7560 baseband processor.
Even so, Intel may wish to postpone the production of the document until September, in order to please Apple, because the new iPhone will be officially unveiled.