A few days ago, and seeing how everything seemed to indicate that Apple had everything against it, Qualcomm and Apple announced that they had reached an agreement for solve all legal battles that they had been facing for a little over a year and that had caused the blocking in Germany of sales of various iPhone models, as in China.
Although the figures of the agreement have not been made public, according to various media, Apple has had to pay more than 6.000 million dollars which will also allow you to continue making use of Qualcomm technology for years to come. However, I highly doubt that Apple still wants to trust Qualcomm forever and is looking for alternatives.
Looking for alternatives to 5G modems has not been an easy task for Apple, since Intel, in whom Apple had placed its trust in order to buy 5G modems, announced that he was retiring from the race, a move that once again forced Apple to go through Qualcomm's ring.
Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst with a high percentage of correctness in his predictions, affirms that Samsung could become the main supplier of 5G chips for iPhones that will arrive in 2020. In this way, Apple could diversify the supplier of its 5G modems without having to depend 100% on Qualcomm.
A few days ago, a news item was published stating that Huawei would have offered its 5G chips to Apple exclusively, to try to find a way out of the conflict that he was facing with Qualcomm at that time, a news that shortly after was denied by the Asian company.
If Apple is not working on its own 5G chip, it is likely to do so in the future, because most likely you want to have the option to stop working with Qualcomm, to whom you have to continue paying a fortune for each iPhone that you put on the market by making use of both its patents and its technology.
