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Apple as acquired Intel's 5G business for $1 billion;
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Apple just spend $1billion to buy Intel's smartphone modern business the deal is expected to give
apple a massive boost in its 5G plan but Apple fans will have to wait another year for iPhone 5G
the first 5G iPhone is expected to arrive in When will Apple launch an iPhone 5G?
- With today's news, Apple will be able to wean itself off of the Qualcomm modem that is in many previous-generation iPhones and expedite the development of its own 5G smartphone modem, which is something Intel had struggled to do on its own.
- Currently, the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR all have 4G LTE with Intel modems and that's not expected to change with the forthcoming iPhone 11 series. Some iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X models have l Qualcomm modem chips.
- Apple and agreed to Qualcommtop suing each other back in April (and Apple had to pay Qualcomm a hefty multi-million-dollar fine in the end). Today's deal is likely more than just bad blood. Apple has had a habit of bringing tech in-house when it can – we expect Apple-designed ARM-based MacBook chips in 2021, too.
- A series of 5G iPhone rumors point to the first iteration launching in 2020. And yet this Apple-Intel deal won't close until the fourth quarter of 2019, leaving the Apple less than a year to turnaround a 5G iPhone modem.
- It doesn't give Apple very much time to develop its own modem, never mind a 5G version that competes with the Qualcomm modem chip already inside the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G. So it may still have to license modems from Qualcomm.
- 2020.


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