iPhone 18 Pro series rumored to get second-generation Apple modem

18 March 2025
The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are said to launch exclusively with Apple's second-gen in-house modem.

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potato4k, 22 hours agoThe mmWave thing is literally only for US models. Apple is ... moreQualcomm has had a de facto monopoly on the US modem for decades now, first due to the CDMA patents, now due to MMWave patents. Even if you want to use someone else's modem (like Google using Samsung's for example), the patent licensing fees are expensive. And frankly, Qualcomm just makes a better product, not just in the modem, but the transceivers as well.

    Would like to get IP 15 but now the 18th rumour already in the news.

      potato4k, 22 hours agoThe mmWave thing is literally only for US models. Apple is ... moreWe guess we are gonna witness another A9-chipset situation again this year, where one is fabbed at Samsung's 14nm fab while the one fabbed at TSMC's 16nm fab, however, this time with the modem if the rumours are true, I fear.

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        Bye bye Qualcomm.

          TheSnowWinterR7, 22 hours ago" The baseline iPhone 18 may get the current C1 chip, ... moreThe mmWave thing is literally only for US models. Apple is already making US version of iPhones special, with mmWane antenna and no SIM slot. Apple can simply use Qualcomm modem just for the US version if they wanted to, and put their own modem for the rest of the world who don't use mmWave anyway.

            " The baseline iPhone 18 may get the current C1 chip, or it may stick with a Qualcomm modem."

            Unless Apple released the mmWave 5G-support revision edition of the current C1 modem for the baseline iPhone 18 series, that would be definitely a downgrade considering vanilla iPhone 16 series has mmWave 5G support AFAIK.

              pl2rts, 19 Mar 2025And how is that special or something ? First generation mo... moreIt's new profit strategy to make it seems like there is noticable upgrades like chipsets for next model..

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                • 19 Mar 2025

                Funny how tech media avoids saying poor endurance of 16e may be the in-house modem. And even blames screen for bad numbers

                  And how is that special or something ? First generation modem have issues so how competent are they that the second generation work out the bugs of the first gen?

                    Watch there still be a price increase

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