Apple has been working on its own modems for years now. The effort goes back to at least 2018 and was heavily bolstered in 2019 when Apple acquired the entire modem division from Intel after Intel tried and failed to provide a meaningful alternative to Qualcomm. But making a good cellular modem is hard, very hard (just ask Intel). Creating something with the performance, reliability, and power efficiency of Qualcomm’s modem–or close enough–has proven to be too difficult
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