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“According to the report, the next-generation Apple smartphone, which is expected next year, will still be manufactured by the Hon Hai Group and Foxconn, and will include a Qualcomm baseband chip this time around,” Ong reports.
Ong reports, “A move away from Infineon would break with precedent. Infineon has supplied Apple with the baseband chip for the iPad 3G and all of the Cupertino, Calif., company’s iPhone models since the smartphone was first released in 2007.”
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intel obviously needs to change their deodorant!
Apple wants nothing to do with them anymore I guess.
LTE is coming and Quallcomm has what Apple needs
Apple will use the best chips they can find and design better chips as they go along. That is why Apple purchased P. A. Semiconductor. You know, the in-house group that help develop the A4 chip in the iOS devices including the new AppleTV.
ah… yeah… now tell me how to make the MDN app run at least 50% as fast as accessing MDN via safari on this, the most superior hand held device since the invention of the rock.
Yeah. Much as I like it when it works, the MDN iPad app has become really annoying to use with frequent stalls and apparent freezes with the equivalent of a spinning beach ball. Will it ever get fixed?
Good choice buying Infineon Intel.
@btayler and Peter Blood,
I don’t think the problem is with MDN. I’ve had that problem on my 3GS, but I always double check other apps when it happens. What I’ve found is the stalls and freezes always happen when I’m on 3G and usually other apps are stalling and freezing too.
What I do is turn airplane mode on for about 30 seconds and then off and I can usually start working with 3G again.
Oh, and on Intel buying Infineon..Intel’s probably feeling rather abused right now. They shelled out cash for a product that is DOA.
Apple: The competition castration machine.
I doubt this rumor.y hunch is that Apple has to veer away from Infineon for CDMA-only chips for telcos based on that (such as Verizon or Sprint). Rumors are just that. Rumors. And more often than not, they are wildly incorrect.
This has nothing to do with Infineon or Intel, it’s because Apple wants a CDMA hybrid chip that Qualcomm has.
The iPhone is not a huge seller. Sure, it makes nearly as much profit as the rest of the smartphone market put together and is … #3? … in sales, but Intel can afford to lose those sales. It may just be enough incentive to put some R&D funds there.
No need to go getting excessively snarky over a modest change. You don’t know that Apple didn’t have this change in mind before the Intel buy became sufficiently public knowledge. Jersey_Trader nailed it with “Apple will use the best chips they can find and design better chips as they go along.”. I’m sure Intel will act out of similar self-interest.
If MDN would cache new articles upon launch, navigating the app would be much faster…and have the added benefit of being useful on a plane/subway.
I think MDN’s servers aren’t able to handle the load when alerts are pushed.
Try this: as soon as you get a MDN alert, use your computer on a good internet connection to connect to the MDN website using Safari (or Firefox, Chrome, etc).
This happens to me all the time: I get a “can’t connect to the site” error message for the next couple of minutes after getting the alert.
It may be with the alert mechanism, the RSS feeds, too many people hitting the site all at once after publishing, or the publishing is requiring the server to do all kinds of database work as soon as something is posted, but something is definitely wrong.
@YouCan’tFixStupid
Great idea. They could even combine the text of all their articles into one file, like an RSS feed, and would only need to cache the 1 text file.
If apple is not liking intel that’s awesome.I’ve aawlways been upset that the Mac was intel powerd.
Btw: Ios is actully the third most used OS(2nd and 1st are Mac and win)
Apple my develop a ‘fenced’ model for the Chinese market with CDMA because that is a huge, huge stand alone market, It could designed somehow to only work in China to prevent graymarket issues. Other than that, CDMA is on the way out in the US Even Verizon is going over the LTE as I think Sprint is too. Big Change.
GSM for T-mobile and ATT&T makes T-mobile the only other viable carrier. I think the same applies to Canada and Mexico.
@Stephen
“I’ve aawlways been upset that the Mac was intel powerd.”
Are you kidding me‽
What else would they be powered by? Apple really had little or no choice. There was nothing else at the time that was laptop worthy. The G4 was way behind the times, the G5 too energy sucking, and the roadmap wasn’t well suited for Apple’s product lines.
The Cell was expensive, not well suited for OS X and too energy sucking.
Maybe Apple could’ve gone with AMD, but Intel has always been one step ahead when you look at all of the variables to consider. Apple always goes with premium components.
Not to mention Intel has worked with Apple on custom products (like the MacBook Air) and given first orders to Apple.
From a user perspective, having Intel inside has been great not only from a power/energy perspective but also with the ability to boot into Windows or virtualize Windows. This has made the transition for a lot of people much easier and cost effective in some cases. For others who need to develop or support cross platform, it means not having to buy a PC in addition to a Mac.
Apple choosing to go with Intel was a very wise decision and the execution was flawless beyond anyone’s expectations.
Not that Apple didn’t have great chips with the G4 and G5 at the time that they came out, but they stopped evolving while Intel kept moving further and further ahead.
I mean really, compare a Core Duo to a G4 in both battery life and performance and tell me that it would’ve been fine to continue indefinitely with the G4 in Apple’s notebooks.
Additionally it’s worth considering that Apple has at many times in the past used technology developed by Intel and will likely do so for the foreseeable future.
I’m not sure about this Qualcomm rumor. It sounds a lot like just another Verizon iPhone rumor, but if Apple goes with Qualcomm, it will be for CDMA or hybrid tech that Infineon just can’t provide…yet.
Amazing the conclusions simple minds can come to based on no more than internet news. Pure conjecture at its worst.
@macslut
I get stalling issues with the MDN app routinely on WiFi or 3G. Using Safari directly to MDN seems to have far fewer problems. Somehow the server queue mechanism seems to get stuck when using the iPad app. Or as you say may be a momentary server overload though I don’t respond to alerts immediately usually.
@Peter Blood,
Actually, what I was talking about observing was really independent of the iPhone or iPad app. When a new story sends out alerts, the website becomes temporarily unavailable (by Mac, PC, any browser). I’m only using the iPhone/iPad app to get the alert, and then I instantly try to go to the website on my MacBook Pro and it’s unavailable for up to a couple of minutes. I travel a lot and I’ve witnessed this on many internet connections.
Its great to hear news about iphone 5.
Any chance of being able to buy iphone 4 yet?
No stock here in Milan or in Vancouver.
@macslut,
Maybe Stephen lives in Antarctica and needs that extra lap heat.
Gizmodo… See if they have ant stolen iPhone 5 prototypes!
Apple are still buying plenty of PC chips from Intel, plus they are selling more Macs than ever. I would estimate that Apple now sell ~12-15MM Macs per year. Before Apple started with Intel they were selling ~5-7MM per year. So Intel can’t be complaining about that.
Apple will use whatever they need to accomplish their production goals. They are not tied to any chip vendor. They have shown that in the past with the iPod.
It just business and there’s no agenda.
This is all about competition in the market. It keeps Intel on their toes and gives Apple more leverage with them. I doubt we’ll see Intel chips disappear out of Macs. But we may well see Intel being a bit more friendly, as in cutting the chip prices to Apple.
Having choices is always good for business.