Apple will start to use its own baseband next year: TSMC's 5nm process

Apple's research and development of SOC can be described as second to none, especially the A15 processor launched last year, which is much ahead of Android processors in performance, but in baseband research and development, Apple has a big gap with communication giants such as Huawei, Samsung, and Qualcomm. However, in the past, Apple has acquired Intel's baseband research and development team, and is currently engaged in the research and development of baseband, according to the news of the supply chain, next year Apple will officially mass-produce and use self-developed baseband, and will use TSMC's 5nm process.

At present, Apple's iPhone uses a baseband produced by Qualcomm, which is still relatively stable in recent years, and there is no overturning. However, it is estimated that Apple feels that the independent baseband is too expensive in the quotation, so it will start to use the self-developed baseband next year, and at the same time, TSMC will carry out exclusive OEM, and the process is 5nm. Of course, Qualcomm, as one of Apple's partners, has said in the previous report that Apple will adopt self-developed basebands on future iPhones, and it is expected that in 2023, Qualcomm basebands will have less than 20% of the market share in iPhones.

However, Apple acquired Intel's baseband, and Intel's communication baseband was previously used on the iPhone XS series of mobile phones, but the actual effect is not ideal, do not know after 4 years of research and development, Apple can bring consumers what kind of 5G baseband, do not know whether the iPhone's signal problem can be improved?