Apple could drop Qualcomm chips from iPhone from 2018 - report

News Wireless Global 31 OCT 2017
Apple could drop Qualcomm chips from iPhone from 2018 - report
Apple is apparently designing iPhones and iPads for next year without any components from Qualcomm, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources close to the matter. The move would mainly involve modem chips. Still, the sources said Apple’s plans could still change. People familiar with Apple’s manufacturing process said the company could change modem-chip suppliers as late as June, three months before the next iPhone is expected to ship. Still, some of the people said Apple hasn’t previously designed iPhones and iPads to exclude Qualcomm chips at a similar stage of the process. 

The two companies are involved in a number of lawsuits. Earlier this month, Qualcomm filed suits in Beijing to ban iPhone production in China. In September, a US judge said Apple lawsuits against Qualcomm abroad can proceed while the company’s pricing dispute continues in the US, Reuters reported. Qualcomm, which has worked with Apple for a decade, stopped sharing software after Apple filed a federal lawsuit in January accusing Qualcomm of using its market dominance unfairly to block competitors and to charge exorbitant patent royalties, a source said. Qualcomm has said Apple is mischaracterizing its practices. 

Qualcomm said its "modem that could be used in the next generation iPhone has already been fully tested and released to Apple". The company said it is "committed to supporting Apple’s new devices" as it does for others in the industry. 

Apple in the past used only Qualcomm modem chips for iPhones, but started also procuring the chips from Intel for its iPhone 7 and 7 Plus models last year. It again used a mix of the two in the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus that started selling in September.


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