“Apple reportedly plans to form a R&D team to develop baseband processors for use in iPhones to be released in 2015 and will place the baseband chip orders with Samsung Electronics and Globalfoundries, according to industry sources,” Josephine Lien and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes.
“Apple currently purchases baseband chips from Qualcomm,” Lien and Shen report, “which then produces the chips at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), indicated the sources, adding that Qualcomm and TSMC will be affected if Apple decides to develop baseband chips in house.”
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