The C1 Apple modem represents a significant technical breakthrough. It is the result of a multi-billion dollar investment and seven years of development. Despite this, it receives only two sentences in the press release and a brief 15-second mention in the announcement video. Apple is deliberately keeping it low profile.
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This isn't a surprise for management because Qualcomm has already announced this would happen last year.
The management can try to sugar coat this all they want. This is really bad for Qualcomm and they know it. More layoffs coming!
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AAPL is as Indian as Qualcomm. Evidence: just ask anyone who applied to a position as modem engineer of any kind (hardware/software/phy/mac). 90%of the multi-round interviewers are Indians and they take pleasure in asking questions which are based on syntax of a programming language and they lack any creativity to accept a coding solution which deviates from what they memorized before coming to the interview. I appeared for an 8 round interview. I can positively say I felt I knew more than those chimps in terms of firmware engineering. Four out of eight were real chimps. Asked me about some Firmware problem. They seemed so insecure when I told them about so many techniques to write a proper, platform-independent code. And, two of the chimps were from Munich. Those in Munich have got into Apple purely because of Apple's acquisition of Intel. They clearly lack the rigor to clear an interview process which they are conducting these days.
TLDR ; I don't know about rest of Apple, but Apple's modem division is more Indian than Banglore, Hydrabad, Chenai , Noida all put together.
“It’s called the iPhone 16e because that is what your network status indicator is gonna say” 🤭
Qualcomm's modem has mm-wave, but this seems more of a gimmick than something truly important. Pending reviews, I'm likely going to buy the iPhone 16e. The fact that it doesn't have mm-wave is a total non-issue for me.
Qualcomm is not so vital to the modem market anymore, and really NEEDS to move beyond modem and into other areas. Can it?
Is the thread about C1? 🤔
C1 must be pretty bad if they're using Mediatek in their flagship phones. Just cost cutting all around.
First generation of Apple modem might underperformed Vs other modem providers but subsequent modem from Apple will improve as they learn from C1 experience...take a look at first 4G or 5G modem from anyone (QC,MTK,SS).
More layoffs coming!
No matter WATT, C1 modem is inferior compared to modem found in Iphone16 😉
iPhone 17 said to use MediaTek 5G modems instead of Apple’s C1 chip https://bgr.com/tech/iphone-17-said-to-use-mediatek-5g-modems-instead-of-apples-c1-chip/
The condescending comments from Q are hilarious. AAPL has 10x QCOM revenues.
QCOM is a zit on AAPL’s a•s. That’s because it’s not an Indian company.
Thats got to be the most expensive r&d effort by apple. Took over 16 years. ROI is BADDD
Qualcomm will still make money off each iPhone sold.
Investors already aware of this, and therefore stock price was unaffected. Therefore, current valuation has loss of selling modems to Apple baked in.
Apple is sick of paying absurd Q licensing fees, Q demands a cuto the device retail price, right?
Q greed is not sustainable.
When you have both money and will, you can get things done. Apple has both. Samsung also has their own modem, although they still buy from Qualcomm. The day may come when Q loses Samsung as a customer as well.
Yeah it probably doesn’t even work well. Apple cannot design modems. Right?!
It's like cheating your customers. Selling inferior modem and not disclosing it properly.
I'll reserve my judgement until it's vetted in public. On paper, it sounds like a good thing for Apple.
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