A little over a week ago, Apple and Qualcomm announced that they had reached an agreement to settle the different legal disputes that are facing them in the last year and a half and that for now it has harmed the Cupertino boys the most, at least in Germany and China.
Various analysts affirmed that the agreement between both companies it had cost Apple about $ 6.000 billion, a figure not too far from reality, according to financial data for the first quarter of the year presented by the processor manufacturer and to which Axios has had access.
According to Axios, Qualcomm will report revenues of between $ 4.500 billion and $ 4.700 billion of the agreement reached with Apple, a figure that includes a cash payment from Apple and the end of all lawsuits and lawsuits pending both companies, so that everything will continue as until both companies began their particular battle of giants.
Neither company has offered specific details of the deal, but that figure had initially been estimated to be between $ 5.000 billion and $ 6.000 billion. The deal includes a six-year license agreement and a multi-year chip supply agreement, through which Qualcomm will be the main supplier of the 5G chip for future iPhone to hit the market.
Hours after the announcement of the agreement between the two companies, Intel officially announced that it had abandoned the development of a 5G chip, since its main and practically only client was going to be Apple itself. However, Apple does not want to rely exclusively on Qualcomm and will most likely look for other providers.
Samsung could be the other supplier of 5G chips that Apple plans to start use in the different iPhone models that will be launched on the market from 2020, although it may not be the only one, since Huawei y MediaTek they are also working on some of their own.