Every week we have new leaks related to the future iPhone 7, about its possible design, about its future internal characteristics but we are also seeing various concepts of how the tenth version of iOS could be, version to be officially released in just under a month at Apple's developer conference.
Today the manufacturer of the LTE chips in current iPhone models is Qualcomm, but as we informed you a few weeks ago, the firm had lost the contract with Apple for the next generation of iPhone and iPad with this mobile communications chip.
As reported by DigiTimes, Intel will be the supplier of 50% of the next LTE chips, manufactured by TSMC and KYEC, for the next iPhone 7 and iPad with mobile connection, which will hit the market next September.
As we can read in DigiTimes
Intel will manufacture the new communications chips for the new iPhones and will employ the manufacturers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) for their manufacture, according to the same sources that have confirmed this news.
The first rumors about the change of the manufacturer of the LTE chips of the iPhone began to emerge in the middle of last year, in which it was rumored that Qualcomm had almost all the ballots to lose exclusivity in the manufacture of LTE chips for Apple, news that has finally been confirmed, according to these latest rumors, what we did not know was who could be the final manufacturer of the new chips, although it was suspected that it could be Intel.
A little over a month ago, we informed you of the hiring of more than 1.000 employees by Intel to work exclusively in the manufacture of the LTE 7360 chip, a chip that will be much faster allowing information to be downloaded at a speed of up to 450 Mbps, uploads of up to 100 Mbps in addition to offering support for categories 10 and 29 of the current LTE bands.