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Inside Apple's Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part for Its New iPhones
The company set out to design a silicon chip that would allow it to cut ties with Qualcomm, a longtime supplier and bitter foeThe new iPhone models unveiled last week are missing a proprietary silicon chip that Apple had spent several years and billions of dollars trying to develop in time for the rollout.
The 2018 marching orders from Apple AAPL -2.00%decrease; red down pointing triangle Chief Executive Tim Cook to design and build a modem chipa part that connects iPhones to wireless carriersled to the hiring of thousands of engineers. The goal was to sever Apples grudging dependence on Qualcomm, a longtime chip supplier that dominates the modem market.
The obstacles to finishing the chip were largely of Apples own making, according to former company engineers and executives familiar with the project.
Apple had planned to have its modem chip ready to use in the new iPhone models. But tests late last year found the chip was too slow and prone to overheating. Its circuit board was so big it would take up half an iPhone, making it unusable.
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Inside Apple's Spectacular Failure to Build a Key Part for Its New iPhones (Original Post)
Zorro
Sep 2023
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Crowman2009
(2,505 posts)1. An iPhone costs more than my entire home entertainment center.
Skittles
(153,251 posts)4. I can't believe people will pay that much for a phone
4dog
(505 posts)2. Is there a non-paywall version of this story? nt
hunter
(38,339 posts)3. Here's a summary in the Verge: