IT House March 13 news, this morning, industry insiders @ mobile phone chip master said that an insider from Qualcomm to Apple revealed that not only Sub-6GHz, Apple's mmWave millimeter wave RF chip has also been designed, codenamed Turaco.
According to a previous report by the Taiwan Economic Daily, the supply chain has reported that TSMC has won all of Apple's 5G RF chip orders, which is expected to be applied to the new generation of iPhone 14 products launched this year as soon as possible. According to market analysts, the relevant chips will be produced by TSMC's 6-nanometer process, and the annual demand is expected to exceed 150,000 pieces.
IT Home learned that in January this year, there was news that Apple's self-developed 5G baseband and supporting RF chips completed the design and began trial production and sample delivery. At present, although Apple uses Qualcomm 5G baseband chips, it still decided to develop its own 5G baseband chips, and acquired Intel's smartphone 5G baseband chip business in 2019, with the purpose of hoping to reduce its dependence on Qualcomm and reduce patent licensing expenses.
In addition, a digiTimes report in February showed that Apple is in preliminary negotiations with a new supplier to secure a back-end order for the first built-in 5G modem chip for iPhone phones. These chips are expected to appear on the iPhone in 2023.