{"id":264735,"date":"2018-06-16T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=264735"},"modified":"2018-06-16T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T13:23:20","slug":"intel-making-phone-modem-chips-to-take-on-qualcomm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/264735-intel-making-phone-modem-chips-to-take-on-qualcomm.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel making phone modem chips to take on Qualcomm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel vice president of technology, systems architecture, and client group Asha Keddy has confirmed they will make phone modems for Apple&#8217;s upcoming iPhones, the Nikkei Asian review <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Intel-starts-making-modem-chips-for-upcoming-iPhones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be honest, we have a late start. But now, I believe we&#8217;ve caught up and later we want to lead in 5G,&#8221; said Keddy.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the XMM 7560, the report speculates Apple would be a big customer for its modem chip.<\/p>\n<p>Data download speeds of up to 1Gbps would be supported, and Keddy described the XMM 7560 as a milestone for Intel &#8211; as it supports\u00a0code division multiple access technology, which is used by US networks.<\/p>\n<p>While Intel has supplied chips to Apple before, this will be the first time it produces them in-house.\u00a0In 2016 and 2017, it outsourced production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.<\/p>\n<p>The potential deal follows Apple and Qualcomm&#8217;s wide-ranging <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/264031-apple-and-qualcomms-lawsuit-is-about-to-get-serious.html\"><strong>legal battle<\/strong><\/a> over royalty payments.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg reported that there are more than 50 intellectual property and antitrust proceedings filed across 16 jurisdictions in six countries in the fight.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/264197-intel-working-on-a-new-quantum-chip.html\">Intel working on a new quantum chip<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has confirmed it will make phone modems for Apple&#8217;s upcoming iPhones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[605,131,1125,3524],"class_list":["post-264735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-apple","tag-intel","tag-iphone","tag-qualcomm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264783,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264735\/revisions\/264783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}