It's official: Apple buys Intel's smartphone modem business for $1 billion
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- 29 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 27 Jul 2019illegal....... like you are country I'm not certain whether this is what you're trying to 'argue', but I'm not from the USA, South Korea, nor any European nation.
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- 27 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 27 Jul 2019illegal....... like you are country What is that even supposed to mean? They've been found guilty and fined in 3 national/international courts. And the EU is trying them, again, *right now* for selling below cost to kill off another competitor.
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- 27 Jul 2019
LahtiMan, 27 Jul 2019Apple has really good software and that's why Chinese OEM's... moreHa ha, get real... I had a case on my Iphone to hide the logo, so people could not easily see the embarrassing fact that I had bought an aPple product... (OK hardware - horrible software)
(It was the least bad option to get a keyboard slider back then)
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- 27 Jul 2019
PeterThePanda, 27 Jul 2019(X) DOUBT AMD is already better than Intel when it comes... moreWow, your are informed... just joking
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- 27 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 26 Jul 2019Intel's technology is best (X) DOUBT
AMD is already better than Intel when it comes to Processors. Meanwhile, Qualcomm makes Intel's smartphone modems looks like garbage when it comes to performance.
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- 27 Jul 2019
Nick, 26 Jul 2019Great strategy! This is not the first time Apple does that... moreSony does something similar.. they partner with companies and in the end buys then
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- 27 Jul 2019
Kevin T, 26 Jul 2019It's amazing how
Apple can buy any company
but still make... moreApple has really good software and that's why Chinese OEM's try to copy it's looks. Of course copying looks don't fix android problems but at least you can pretend that you got iOS on your phone.
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- 27 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 27 Jul 2019You need to read up on this. Qualcomm held back the market... moreillegal....... like you are country
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- 27 Jul 2019
mark, 26 Jul 2019LOL what are you talking about? Interms of processing power... moreIf it's optimized to run only apple IOS then it can be what ever it likes to be.
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- 27 Jul 2019
Intel's smartphone modem is the best. (good for network coverage catching for 2G and WIFI ).
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- 27 Jul 2019
Carol, 26 Jul 2019I feal that apple just killed a part of competition...You need to read up on this. Qualcomm held back the market and hobbled or killed off their competitors for the last 20 years with their strong arm (and illegal) licensing tactics.
Qualcomm had refused to sell Apple 5G modems for the soon to be announced XI series, and it looked like intel's modem wouldn't be ready even for the XIS series in 2020. Apple settled, and without their business intel cancelled all 5G modem development.
intel's modem unit was heading for a dead end, selling their existing designs to the lower end of the market until that market dried up; Apple buying it keeps it alive.
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- 27 Jul 2019
Mzma PIB, 26 Jul 2019Apple willing to take over after win again qualcomm in cour... more...and South Korea, and the European Union, as these have also already found Qualcomm guilty of illegal anti-competitive activity that has caused significant 'harm' in the mobile space.
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- 26 Jul 2019
Kevin T, 26 Jul 2019Intel should have kept the business I rather wanted to se... moreThe volume required to design and build modems profitably is such that without Apple intel couldn't turn a profit, thus they gave up working on a 5th generation design. Only the largest phone makers (Huawei, Samsung, and now {soonish} Apple) have the scale to do it. intel had to either sell it off to one of a very few potential buyers, or they would have competed with MediaTek on the low end of the market until they wrote it off as unviable.
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- 26 Jul 2019
Adul Al Salami Kebab, 26 Jul 2019Does this mean no more Intel network parts for PC? Such as ... moreRead the article pls
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- 26 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 26 Jul 2019I feel that apple got scammedI feal that apple just killed a part of competition...
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- 26 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 26 Jul 2019Well, Intel's modems are nothing spectacular right now. But... moreHow naiv some people are.
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- 26 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 26 Jul 2019Softwares and still Android/Google can’t even make a proper... moreperhaps they are not interested in tablet market? with phones being close to 7 inches, who needs tablets anyways? might as well get a laptop/chromebook
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- 26 Jul 2019
Anonymous, 26 Jul 2019Arent snapdragon the ones playing catch up, every year that... morethat depends on perspective.. Qcomm gets its chips in at march while Apple in September. So you can say that Qcomm is best in March then apple catches up in September and vice versa
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- 26 Jul 2019
Kevin T, 26 Jul 2019Intel should have kept the business I rather wanted to se... moreYoup, the only ones left are Nvidia but they retreat from mobile market, i hope, now, that intel is out of it, nvidia thinks again. I find this deal between intel and apple a crime against fair competition. Apple just kills everything good in technology and in marketing.
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- 26 Jul 2019
Apple willing to take over after win again qualcomm in court through FTC & Lucy Koh.. If not do you all think Apple will throw 1B for non perform modem.. Everything due to this..
Apple & FTC & Lucy Koh Vs Qulacomm..