Apple plans to adopt TSMC's 4-nanometer chip production technology to mass produce its first in-house 5G modem chip, four people familiar with the matter said, adding that the iPhone maker is developing its own radio frequency and millimeter wave components to complement the modem. Apple is also working on its own power management chip specifically for the modem, two people briefed on the matter said.
The report lines up with previous rumors of Apple launching its own modem as part of the 2023 iPhone lineup, and Qualcomm last week revealed that it is using a planning assumption that it will only have a 20% share of modem production for the 2023 iPhone. Qualcomm believes that Apple will be using its own modem solution in most regions around the world, but will continue to rely on Qualcomm for certain markets, at least initially.
Today's report from Nikkei says that Apple and TSMC are currently trialing production of Apple's in-house modem designs using TSMC's 5-nanometer process, but that they will shift to the more advanced 4-nanometer technology for mass production. TSMC is already aiming to use 4-nanometer technology for the main A-series chip in the 2022 iPhone lineup, with 2022 iPads and 2023 iPhones moving to 3-nanometer technology for their A-series chips.
In June 2022, Apple previewed the next generation of CarPlay, promising deeper integration with vehicle functions like A/C and FM radio, support for multiple displays across the dashboard, personalization options, and more.Apple says the first vehicles with support for the next-generation CarPlay experience will be announced in late 2023, with at least 14 automakers committed so far.Comm...
Thursday April 13, 2023 11:31 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple has decided to make a last minute design update to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, and the two devices will not feature the unified volume button that has been rumored for the last several weeks, according to Unknownz21. Instead, the iPhone 15 Pro models will have a two-button design for the volume module, which will look similar to the two-button design on the iPhone 14 Pro...
Tuesday April 11, 2023 11:41 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple today introduced new 5E133 firmware for the AirPods 2, AirPods 3, the AirPods Max, the original AirPods Pro, and the AirPods Pro 2 up from the 5B58 and 5B59 firmware updates that were released in November and January.Apple does not offer immediately available release notes on what's included in refreshed firmware updates for the AirPods, but the company does maintain a support...
Thursday April 13, 2023 9:31 am PDT by Juli Clover
Update: Newly obtained information confirms that Apple plans to revert to a two-button design for the iPhone 15 Pro models, rather than using the single unified volume button. The unified volume button was a design planned for the solid-state technology, and Apple is opting to use the older design now that solid-state buttons have been delayed. Though Apple is using the prior two-button...
With less than two months to go until the Worldwide Developers Conference, rumors about Apple's next-generation version of iOS have been picking up. iOS 17 isn't expected to have a major headline feature like iOS 16's Lock Screen, but there are some notable refinements in the works.In fact, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who often provides reliable details on Apple's plans, says that iOS 17 will...
Thursday April 13, 2023 5:54 am PDT by Tim Hardwick
Apple is considering integrating Siri's on-screen interface into the Dynamic Island on newer iPhones, according to an anonymous source who has been sharing details about alleged new features coming in iOS 17.Currently, invoking Siri with a button press or using the "Hey Siri" spoken command causes an animated sphere to appear at the bottom of the screen. The sphere remains overlaid on the...
Wednesday April 12, 2023 4:49 pm PDT by Juli Clover
Apple appears to be gearing up to introduce the Daily Cash savings account feature for Apple Card users, as mentions of a Daily Cash Savings account have been found in backend Apple code by Aaronp613.The appearance of the code indicates that Apple has furthered its work on the savings account, and that it will be introduced in the very near future. Prior to the March 28 launch of Apple Pay...
An unreleased 15-inch MacBook Air with a processor "on par" with the M2 chip has been spotted in App Store developer logs, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The long-rumored laptop will likely be released by WWDC in June.The report indicates that the chip in the new MacBook Air configuration spotted in the logs has an 8-core CPU and 10-core GPU, just like the M2 chip, along with 8GB of...
Apple's 5G Modem To Be Mass Produced On TSMC's 3nm Process
3nm Process
In semiconductor manufacturing, the 3 nm process is the next die shrink after the 5 nanometer MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) technology node. As of 2022, Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC plans to put a 3 nm, semiconductor node termed N3 into volume production in the second half of 2022.
, Risk Production Starting In Late 2023. Apple is expected to break the shackles of Qualcomm's exclusivity as it intends to use its first 5G modem in its flagship iPhone range next year.
Apple's rumored 5G modem project has multiple suppliers interested in assisting with final assembly of the chip, according to a new report. While the custom-designed modem will likely be manufactured by Apple's chipmaking partner TSMC, the final packaging stage may be handled by other suppliers.
The report notes that ASE and SPIL have both been Qualcomm's partners for packaging 5G modem chips for iPhones, including its latest Snapdragon X65 5G modem-RF system now being manufactured at Samsung Electronics.
Apple has been working on its own 5G modem for years. In 2019, it acquired “the majority” of Intel's smartphone modem business after Intel announced it was halting modem development. Apple has reportedly been working on its own version of a 5G modem since early 2020.
Following Patent Deal, Every Time Apple Sells An iPhone, Ericsson Gets A Bit Of Money. Telecommunications infrastructure company Ericsson just announced that it has reached an agreement with Apple over an ongoing patent dispute.
Qualcomm's product portfolio includes chips that enable 5G technology. Qualcomm has profited from the smartphone boom since the early 2000s by focusing on the tech behind 3G and 4G mobile networks.
Apple's most recent iPhone 14 models use Qualcomm modems, but the company has been looking to go solo in the wireless connectivity market for some years. It bought Intel's modem business in 2019 and there had been speculation it would begin using in-house parts this year.
That optical technology company, Butler County-based II-VI Inc. (pronounced “two-six”), could be growing its footprint in the building and hiring more workers, after Apple Inc. on Wednesday announced it was expanding its partnership with II-VI.
The iPhone SE 4 will be the first iPhone that uses Apple's custom-designed 5G modem. With that said, however, it won't support the highest-speed mmWave 5G technology.
Founded in 1995, the company had more than 7,000 employees as of 2023, with over 10,000 patents worldwide, and an annual revenue of $5.9 billion for fiscal 2023. Marvell Technology, Inc. Santa Clara, California, U.S.
The chip factories will be owned and operated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the biggest foundry company with over half of the global market share. TSMC produces the most advanced processors, including the chips in the latest iPhones, iPads and Macs.
Apple wants to start replacing the Qualcomm modem chips that it uses in iPhones as soon as 2024, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Apple has been working on in-house modem chip technology for several years now, with the aim of reducing its reliance on Qualcomm.
Apple's desire to transition away from Qualcomm's chips reportedly stems from a nasty legal battle involving the two companies over licensing, patent and royalty fees relating to the modem chips that power its iPhone and iPad devices.
Apple supplier Foxconn pumping $40M into Pennsylvania for R&D, high-tech factory. Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group is the maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad, and Amazon's Kindle.
Apple currently uses just two suppliers of mini-LED chips, the main one being Taiwan-based Epistar and the other Germany-based Ams Osram. Epistar intends to expand its already fully utilized chip production capacity to Taiwan and China, while Ams Osram began supplying Apple in the second half of 2021.
In the fiscal year 2022, Alphabet's revenue was 282.83 billion U.S. dollars. Comparatively, in the fiscal year of 2021, hardware-focused Apple's 365.82 billion U.S. dollar revenue was over double the amount of Microsoft's 168.09 billion U.S. dollars.
Verizon is targeting 4 to 5 million 5G fixed broadband customers by 2025. It aims to reach 50 million U.S households. T-Mobile has gained 2% in 2023 after advancing 22% last year. TMUS stock holds the most 5G wireless spectrum among U.S. service providers.
As reported by IPlytics, as of September 2021, Chinese patent owner Huawei was the leading owner of 5G technology patent families worldwide, with ownership of over 5600 5G patent families. Of the other 5G patent owners, American QUALCOMM Incorporated ranked second by ownership of 4133 patent families.
Apple is currently developing an in-house 5G modem that aims to replace Qualcomm's Snapdragon 5G chips within the coming years. The report today says that TSMC will be the main supplier of the Qualcomm 5G chip for use in the iPhone 15 series, using the 5nm and 4nm process.
Apple's development of its own 5G modem has reportedly failed, which means the company will need to lean heavily on suppliers for the iPhone 15 generation in 2023. Bad news for Apple, but excellent news for Qualcomm, which is destined to get the entire contract.
Cupertino, California Apple today announced a new $410 million award from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund for II-VI, a leading manufacturer of optical technology.
An iPhone is not only assembled in China, but it starts in that country at a much earlier stage and much deeper part of the earth. Ninety percent of rare earth minerals, naturally occurring solids whose combination comprises essential iPhone parts, are mined in China, notably in Mongolia.
None of the previous iPhone models support 5G and they will never be able to. That includes the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max and the iPhone SE 2020. ... Which iPhone models support 5G?
Apple in October 2020 unveiled the iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, and 12 Pro Max, the first iPhones to support 5G connectivity, and then followed them up with the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 models.
5G has lower latency than LTE. The 5G standard is intended to substantially reduce downloading latency down to 4 milliseconds for phone devices and one millisecond for devices such as self-driving vehicles that depend on ultra-reliable low latency connectivity (about ten times quicker than LTE's ten milliseconds).
ALCATEL-LUCENT, the latest technology company to announce plans to make money from its patents, may generate several hundred million euros this year alone from its trove of 29,000 rights, according to its chief financial officer Paul Tufano.
The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued CombiMatrix Corp. (Burlingame, CA), a subsidiary of Acacia Research Corp. (Pasadena, CA), a Notice of Allowance for the core patent on the company's biochip. The chip was developed by Donald Montgomery, CombiMatrix's founder and VP of research and development.
Taipei, March 3 (CNA) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s (TSMC) sales revenue from its biggest client rose more than 30 percent in 2022 from the previous year, according to financial data released Friday by the company.
Microchips were invented in America, and we used to manufacture about 40% of them.Today, that number is closer to 12%. Our primary sources of microchips are oceans away, subject to disruptions or even intervention by adversaries like China.
The Apple A8 is a 64-bit PoP SoC manufactured by TSMC. Its first appearance was in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, which were introduced on September 9, 2014. A year later it would drive the iPad Mini 4.
The company makes its money by selling chips to clients all over the world. Apple accounts for about one-fifth of TSMC's annual revenue and North America is TSMC's largest market. Roughly 11% of TSMC's revenue is derived from its 28-nanometer technology, which is the industry standard.
The company is now making some iPhone 14 units in India after a few years of manufacturing older models in the country, but shifting meaningful production capacity will be a slow process. Analysts at JPMorgan see around 25% of iPhones being produced in India by 2025.
Tesla becomes TSMC's first EV client for 4nm chips with 3x faster self-driving calculations. Tesla has reportedly placed a large order with the Taiwanese chip foundry TSMC for next-gen 4nm/5nm processors that will help bring its Full Self-Driving Beta system to the next level of autonomy.
While inexpensive, an old router can be adapted as a wireless bridge. This works a little like a wireless repeater, but rather than share the Wi-Fi connection, the wireless bridge offers Ethernet. The old router connects to your existing Wi-Fi network---simply connect devices to the Ethernet ports.
Upgrading your router periodically makes sure you get to take advantage of improvements to wireless speeds, efficiency, range, and network security. Every five years is a good timeline to replace (or at least consider replacing) your old home networking equipment.
Generally, we recommend you upgrade to a new router every three to four years. That accounts for how often people typically upgrade devices like smartphones (every two years) and computers (every three to four years).
Apple is planning to replace the iPhone with an augmented reality (AR) headset in 10 years, a process that is apparently due to start as soon as next year with the launch of a head-mounted device, according to a recent report.
Apple Could Replace the iPhone With Augmented-Reality Devices, Analyst Says. Apple will launch an augmented-reality headset in the fourth quarter of 2022, and could sell more than a billion of the new devices over the next 10 years, one analyst asserted in a research note Friday.
Qualcomm (/ˈkwɒlkɒm/) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology.
The company competes with Huawei, HTC, Nokia, and Samsung in mobile phone technology and MediaTek and Samsung in the semiconductor market. Qualcomm's main competitors in its strategic investment segment include IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Google, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and Nokia.
Unlike Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, Apple's processors are designed specifically for iPhones and iOS. As a result, the hardware and software are perfectly optimized for each other. If you stuck an Apple processor into an Android smartphone, you'd get much worse performance.
"It's the beginning of a new era for iPhone with the arrival of 5G on iPhone 12 models and we're thrilled about the collaboration between Apple and Verizon to bring the best possible 5G experience to iPhone users," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.
The components go to Apple manufacturing locations in China, the Czech Republic, Malaysia, Thailand, and South Korea among others. Although they're located in many countries, however, all these manufacturing facilities are part of only two companies: Foxconn and Pegatron.
Apple relies on TSMC as the sole manufacturer of chips used in iPhones, and since it moved on from Intel in 2020, the Silicon Valley group has been using its own-designed chips produced by TSMC in its laptops and desktop computers.
NSF, DOD partner to advance 5G technologies and communications for U.S. military, government and critical infrastructure operators. The U.S. National Science Foundation is accelerating 5G solutions to assist the U.S. government and critical infrastructure operators to communicate securely anywhere and anytime.
All of Apple's iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and iPhone 14 models support 5G networks, and the 5G modems in the United States work with both mmWave and Sub-6GHz 5G, which are the two types of 5G.
Foxconn, Apple's largest supplier, has invested $500 million in India to bolster its production capabilities in the country as the Cupertino tech-giant and its partners ramp up efforts to diversify the supply chain, South China Morning Post reports.
That optical technology company, Butler County-based II-VI Inc. (pronounced “two-six”), could be growing its footprint in the building and hiring more workers, after Apple Inc. on Wednesday announced it was expanding its partnership with II-VI.
TSMC is a dedicated foundry, meaning it builds the chips designed by other companies. Apple, AMD, and Nvidia are among its largest customers, and even Intel relies on TSMC to make the most advanced processors.
Most of the leading fabless semiconductor companies such as AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, Qualcomm and Nvidia, are customers of TSMC, as are emerging companies such as Allwinner Technology, HiSilicon, Spectra7, and UNISOC.
Apple M1 is a series of ARM-based systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) designed by Apple Inc. as a central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) for its Mac desktops and notebooks, and the iPad Pro and iPad Air tablets.
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