Some people see this title and will definitely ask: What is the grudge between Apple and Intel? Today Xiaobian will come to explain the truth for everyone!
iFixit's teardown of Apple's MacBook M2 shows that the Intel JHL8040R USB4/Raiden 3 timer chip used before has disappeared and replaced it with a scheme of unknown brands, and only one number U09PY3 can be seen on the surface.
Apple swapped out a new clock chip
This means that the last Intel chip in Apple's computer has also been abandoned. From now on, Apple has nothing to do with Intel.
Apple's feud with Qualcomm
Things have to start from the grudge between Apple and Qualcomm, public information shows that Qualcomm and Apple in 2018 involved in dozens of patent lawsuits. In the end, Apple was affected by Qualcomm's patent lawsuit and was temporarily banned from selling Apple's iPhone series products. Apple and Qualcomm's lawsuit is protracted, in the case of last resort, Apple switched to intel 4G baseband chip, which is the beginning of the widely criticized iPhone11 signal difference in the future.
Qualcomm Corporation
Since after the listing of the iPhone11, a large number of users reacted to the iPhone11 signal often fluctuating, and the sales of Apple's iPhone 11 mobile phone once fell. At that time, Huawei and Qualcomm's 5G baseband chips were unveiled. Apple eventually had to settle with Qualcomm to use Qualcomm's 5G baseband chip.
Apple and Intel are secretly at odds
For the enmity and resentment between major electronic product manufacturers, the industry has long been commonplace. During the period when the iPhone11 was widely criticized for the Intel baseband chip problem, Apple must have launched several rounds of negotiations with the relevant departments of Intel. Among them, on the problem of unstable signal and poor gain, Apple will never easily veto Intel in the case of falling out with Qualcomm, and must have done a lot of communication offline.
Intel
However, in the face of pressure from the market and dissatisfaction from users, coupled with the excellent performance of Qualcomm and Huawei's 5G baseband chips in the market. In the case that Intel's baseband chips cannot be compared with Qualcomm and Huawei's related products, Apple only has one way to choose to settle with Qualcomm. Because Huawei's chips are not sold, and Huawei's own chips are not enough.
Apple abandons the cooperation with Intel's 4G baseband chip, will Intel have no complaints? Intel must also have invested a lot of money to meet Apple's demand for its 4G baseband chips and the demand for 5G baseband chips. But in the end, Intel returned home in its partnership with Apple.
Apple's self-developed baseband chip
From Apple's point of view of purchased baseband chips and other accessories, on the one hand, Apple is dissatisfied with Qualcomm's high patent licensing fees, while on the other hand, looking at the entire market is not replaced. Under such circumstances, Apple is determined to design its own 5G baseband chip.
Apple is developing its own 5G baseband chip
I don't know whether the design difficulty of 5G baseband chips is greater than that of CPU or Apple's lack of design experience in baseband chips, all in all, Apple's long-term efforts in 5G baseband chips have been twists and turns, but so far they have not been successful. Therefore, Apple cannot get rid of Qualcomm's 5G baseband chip for the time being.
Apple is determined to stay away from Intel
From the beginning of Apple's self-developed M-series PC CPU, Apple has accelerated the process of moving away from Intel. From M1 to M2, Apple's MacBook no longer uses Intel's CPU, but instead its own M2 chip. As at the beginning of this article, Apple abandoned Intel's timer chip in favor of another company's timer chip.
Intel
Since then, Apple and Intel have been clear and have forgotten each other. For Intel, this is definitely an unforgettable experience, it is difficult to say goodbye when in love, and Intel is powerless to save the red face. After all, there are successive heard of the Tao, the art industry has a specialty, Intel is proud of the CPU, but in the field of mobile communications, There is still a gap between Intel and Qualcomm.
Apple is far away from more than Intel
As a bystander and beneficiary of the US crackdown on Huawei, as Apple, which is also engaged in the mobile phone business, it is well aware of Huawei's difficult situation. Watching people cold and warm, cold and hot self-knowledge, Apple has experienced a grudge with Intel and Qualcomm, and feels empathy for Huawei's self-improvement. Therefore, Apple is determined to resolutely develop its own 5G baseband chip, even if the progress is not smooth, but Apple is determined not to give up.
Apple's breakup with Intel was inevitable
Since Apple itself does not produce and manufacture, only from the design point of view, Apple to increase investment in scientific research is the only way. Through scientific research, Apple can occupy more voice in the field of patents, at least it can no longer sign an alliance under the city. Therefore, Apple not only broke up with Intel, but also the "hot love" with Qualcomm will not last long.
On the other hand, Huawei on the mainland is similar to Apple's situation. Although the biggest difference between Apple and Huawei is that it can at least sign an alliance with Qualcomm to maintain business operations, Huawei has also anchored the Huashan road of self-developed and self-produced chips.