“The Infineon unit makes chips used in mobile phones and laptops, including Apple Inc.’s popular iPhone,” Lagorce and Daniel report. “The acquisition — the second for Intel within two weeks — will bolster its position in the market for smartphone chips, enabling it to offer ‘the full range of wireless options, from Wi-Fi and 3G to WiMAX and LTE,’ Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini said in a statement.”
“The deal with Infineon propels Intel at the forefront of the recent surge in M&A activity. Earlier this month, it announced a $7.7 billion offer for computer-security expert McAfee Inc.,” Lagorce and Daniel report. “For Infineon, the sale of its mobile unit is a chance to refocus on its core lines: automotive, industrial and multimarket, and chip card and security fields, Chief Executive Peter Bauer said.”
Lagorce and Daniel report., “Investors gave the deal a frosty reception on Monday, sending shares of Infineon down 2% in midday trade on Xetra in Frankfurt.”
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MacDailyNews Note: In pre-market trading, shares of Intel (INTC) are down slightly, off $-0.11 (-0.60%) to $18.26 at 8:52AM EDT.
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The iPad and iPhone 4 use A4 chips. But are the cellular chips in these devices separate? And are these made by Infineon?
Can someone answer this?
Skyworks chips if I remember.
I thought Skyworks had been out since the 3GS. You can go to iFixit and look at their teardowns to see what chips are in the iPhone.
I hope Apple switch to other chips as soon as possible.
There are two Skyworks PA Chips in the iPhone 4, but the baseband CPU is definitely a Infineon X-Gold 616 together with a Smarti UE tranceiver chip.
Infineon seems to be the right solution for the moment, but I am sure, Apple is also working on their own baseband chip, so Infineon technology will only be the backUp plan for the next iPhone 5 and will fade out for sure with iPhone 6.
The magic words with new CEVA Cores are SDR – software defined radio – and Apple have much more competence in software developing as Infineon and INTEL together.