Continuing with its strategy to stop depending on external chip manufacturers like the one it followed with its own processors Apple Silicon M1 and M2 (and variants), now those of Cupertino are planning to stop relying on Broadcom and Qualcomm by 2025 on its iPhones.
Currently, although iPhones carry their own A SoCs, they still rely on modems and chips from Qualcomm and Broadcom for data communication (including 5G) and for WiFi and bluetooth respectively. The company was expected to say goodbye to Qualcomm already at this time after the start of development of its own modems, however, it seems that this chip is being delayed and will have to wait until late 2024 or early 2025.
At that time, Apple would also stop depending on Broadcom to replace its WiFi and Bluetooth chips with its own solutions, according to what they say in Bloomberg.
Apple is Broadcom’s biggest customer, accounting for 20% of the company’s revenue, while Qualcomm still receives 22% of its revenue from Cupertino. However, both companies have many more customers, and losing Apple as a customer shouldn’t be as traumatic a blow as Imagination Technologies was left out of iPhone GPU development, losing its only customer.
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