We have already talked about this on more than one occasion, and it is that Apple has entered into a small cross-accusation with Qualcomm that has led to the confrontation of both companies, since apparently Qualcomm has been charging Apple a series of rights that it does not they belonged to him. Meanwhile Intel is taking advantage of the situation to strengthen ties with Apple, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friendSo take the opportunity to present a new mobile modem that meets all the requirements that we could ask of the future iPhone of 2017, we are going to take a look at its news.
This modem has been christened by Intel as the XMM7560, with LTE 16/13 capabilities, capable of reaching download rates of up to 1Gbps and content upload rates of up to 225 Mbps. includes support for 8 × 4 MIMO and is capable of spanning up to 35 LTE bands, which is not bad at all. It also includes support for all the evolutions of the LTE, GSM and CDMA networks available on the market at the moment, without a doubt it is a modem at the height of the devices of the Cupertino company, given to include a lot of connectivity in this aspect.
It will not be the first flash of Apple with Intel, and it is that its modems are already used in a run of the iPhone 7 as a test, something similar to what Apple did with the iPhone 6s between TSMC and Samsung to allocate the manufacture of its processors.
Around 1.000 million dollars is what Qualcomm could have earned more in collecting patents from Apple, the main reason why the Cupertino company could have definitely opted for Intel as its modem provider on the iPhone, always keeping in mind account that they are known from the processors of the Mac range.