While Apple remains Intel’s only major modem chip customer now, Intel Chief Executive Bob Swan said the Santa Clara, California-based chipmaker plans to pursue other lines of business, such as selling modems to carmakers. “Friction for others is an opportunity for us. But Intel executives declined to comment on whether Intel would combine its modem and processors into a single chip the way that rivals such as San Diego-based Qualcomm Inc have done.
“Our model relative to other California-based players is just completely different,” Swan said.He also said that modems could appear in a range of other devices, such as network gear, alongside Intel’s computing chips as 5G networks proliferate. Intel Corp executives said on Friday its 5G modem chips will not appear in mobile phones until 2020, raising the possibility its biggest customer, Apple Inc, will be more than a year behind rivals in delivering a device that uses the faster networks. “Ours China silicone rubber is not a licensing-based model.Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Bloomberg previously reported that Apple would not have a 5G iPhone ready until 2020.”. Rivera said non-consumer 5G products, such as networking gear, will appear later this year.It was unclear whether Intel’s timing on modem chips means that Apple will not have an iPhone with 5G capabilities in 2019.Sandra Rivera, who oversees Intel’s networking chip business, said at a media event in Palo Alto, California, that sample 5G modem chips will ship to customers this year but that Intel does not expect consumer “products in the market” until 2020.“Royalty streams that are charged against the cost of the entire device, that’s a model that as you know has caused quite a bit of friction in the market,” Swan continued, alluding to Qualcomm’s legal battles with Apple and other phone makers over the San Diego firm’s patent practices. It was unclear whether Intel’s timing on modem chips means that Apple will not have an iPhone with 5G capabilities in 2019.
Swan said Intel did not plan to generate patent licensing revenue from its 5G technology like its Southern California competitor does.Apple executives have held talks with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and MediaTek Inc over 5G modem chips for iPhones to be released this year, but the outcome of those talks is unknown. 7 that Apple earlier this year moved its modem engineering efforts into the same division that makes its proprietary processor chips.
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