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According to an exclusive report from Fast Company, Apple engineers are teaming up with Intel engineers to work on 5G technology for future iPhones to be released in 2019 or 2020. Fast Company’s source adds that in contrast, Apple has been having minimal contact with Intel's main rival...

According to a new note to investors from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, via AppleInsider, Apple is planning to upgrade the baseband chips in the 2018 iPhone range to enable the phones to have “significantly” faster LTE transmission speeds. Kuo says that the 2018 iPhone line-up will use...

Bloomberg reports that Qualcomm has just filed lawsuits in China with the intention of banning the sale and manufacture of iPhones in that country as part of its long-running legal battle with Apple. The lawsuit was filed in a Beijing intellectual property court, and claims that Apple infringed...

According to noted KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is 2 years ahead of Qualcomm with the 3D sensing technology that is rumoured to be replacing Touch ID in the iPhone 8. So much so, in fact, that Kuo says that Qualcomm won’t be shipping such technology in any sort of significant...

MacRumors reports that according to Fortune, Qualcomm and Apple’s legal battle looks set to heat up even further with Qualcomm asking the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to block iPhone and iPad imports into the US, as well as asking for sales of devices already in the US to...

According to a new report from DigiTimes, via AppleInsider, Apple’s current dispute with Qualcomm has led to the company to increase its use of Intel modems for the forthcoming iPhone 8. Approximately 30% of iPhone 7 chips were provided by Intel in 2016, but that has increased to 50% for the...

Bloomberg reports that the dispute between Qualcomm and Apple doesn’t look like being settled anytime soon, with the chip manufacturer now said to be looking to ask a U.S. trade agency to ban iPhones from being imported into the US. This would basically stop Apple from selling any iPhones in the...

iDownload Blog reports that Apple has announced that it is suing Qualcomm, the company that makes iPhone modems and owns lots of wireless patents, for $1 billion. The move comes “after years of disagreement over what constitutes a fair and reasonable royalty,” said Apple in a statement. Apple...

Recode writes that the new Intel modem chip that Apple has used in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus is unable to be used on Sprint and Verizon networks as it does not support the CDMA standard that those two carriers still use. This means that Apple has had to create separate iPhone 7 and iPhone 7...

Bloomberg reports on a major coup for Intel, which it claims has managed to finally make a big entrance into the mobile market with Apple ordering Intel modem chips for some iPhone 7 models, rather than the usual Qualcomm, in a bid to have a more diverse supplier base. Specifically, Apple is...