If Apple does bring these alleged chips to market, they will be another addition to the company’s expanding array of bespoke processors, which currently includes the A-series system-on-a-chip portfolio. The cellular modem, on the other hand, seems to be difficult to design. The firm purchased “the bulk” of Intel’s smartphone modem business in 2019, and Nikkei claimed in 2021 that Apple intended to deploy its own 5G modem beginning in 2023, but Qualcomm’s latest statements imply that Apple would not convert until at least 2024.
