The soap opera that has pitted against Apple and Qualcomm In recent months, it was terminated last week, after the announcement of an agreement between both parties. Of course, as planned, Apple has been forced to disburse almost 6.000 million dollars, but that's howe claims to be able to use the 5G modems of the American company in the coming years.
Hours after announcing the deal, Intel said it was getting off the bandwagon and would not continue to develop the technology necessary to create 5G modems, Ya que the main and almost only customer was Apple, a company that had already reached an agreement with Qualcomm. But before an agreement was reached, Apple hired one of Intel's 5G engineers to create its own modem.
We are talking about Umashankar Thyagarajan, who has been working in the Cupertino offices for a couple of months. According to The Telegraph, citing internal Intel sources close to executives Messay Amerga and Abhay Joshi. Thyagarajan was a fundamental part in the development of 4G modems of Intel for the iPhone 2018 and was one of the main people in charge of the project to create a 5G modem.
As strange as this move on Apple's part may seem, there is a widespread belief in Tim Cook's company that Intel's pace of work for the development of 5G modems was not being fast enough that the company would need. According to various analysts, Apple was approaching the deadline to choose a 5G modem provider for the 2020 iPhones, as this year's models will continue to use Intel's 4G modem.
This thought on the part of Apple, may have been one of the main reasons why the guys from Cupertino have been forced to come to an agreement with Qualcomm. The agreement that both companies have reached does not mean that Apple is not developing its own 5G communications chip under the direction of vice president of hardware Johny Srouji.
For now, the first iPhone with a 5G chip will be the 2020 models and they will use Qualcomm technology, although it is probably not exclusively, since it seems that Samsung could also become another of the providers, although to a lesser extent. Everyone knows that Apple does not like to depend exclusively on a single supplier
