The iPhone 7 will be well a smartphone with an Intel chip as we had told you in March. But it is not the central processor (CPU), Intel craft heart. According to information gathered by Bloomberg, Intel will deliver “only” GSM modem chip that supports voice and data up to 4G, Qualcomm CDMA always delivering the party supported by US carriers Sprint and Verizon.
the Intel chip would be the XMM 7360, which we mentioned, a 4G LTE Cat 10 component that manages theoretical download speeds of 450 Mbit / s and amounts rates of 100 Mbits / s (against respectively 300 Mbit / s and 50 Mbit / s for current iPhone 6S)
It is not a setback for Intel, but a small victory. accumulating failures the moving part – the Asus partner unusual manufacturer to offer Intel Inside terminals, no longer offers them on its latest generation – Intel still manages to place for the first time one of its components in the best-selling smartphone in the world.
But it will have to sell him in the chips, and as modems to slow his descent into hell: in April, Intel announced no fewer than 12,000 job cuts in the wake of disappointing results. Draconian as caused by the failure of Intel in the mobile CPU by the significant decline of the PC market (-10% between 2014 and 2015).
The arrival of another chip a CPU in the next iPhone is the beginning of Intel’s strategy shift that wants to get back in the race for semiconductors by the margin by developing small components, not only in smartphones, but also in all the connected objects .
the arrival of an Intel chip in the iPhone 7 is a good communication process, but it will take Intel further success to stop the bleeding.
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