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#News(IoTStack) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
APPLE SAID that it will spend $1 billion to buy most of Intel’s business that makes modems for smartphones—the crucial chips that connect devices to cell networks and Wi-Fi. The deal gives the iPhone maker new power to customize and control the technology inside its mobile devices at a time when the industry is moving to new and faster 5G cellular connections.
The deal also remedies a headache for chipmaker Intel. Its modem business had become a lame duck after the company said in April that it was abandoning work on 5G technology for smartphones.Apple’s purchase fits with a strategy that has kept the iPhone at the head of the smartphone herd for more than a decade.
The company has spent heavily to design customized components and manufacturing processes for its devices. That helped Apple’s iPhone to be first to market with new features such as face unlock and advanced augmented reality.
The modems in Apple devices have been an exception to the company’s usual tight integration. Competitors such as Samsung and Huawei build their phones around chips that bundle the main processor and modem circuitry. That offers cost and space savings. In Apple’s devices the custom processor and externally sourced modems have been separate components.
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