Information about the iPhone 7 re-emerged. This time, the next flagship phone from Apple is called will wear homemade chips Intel.
Components of Intel is not the form of System-on-Chip (SoC) as the Atom product line, but the LTE modem chip.
It was unclear who would supply 50 percent of the rest, but it probably will be handled by Qualcomm that used to be the exclusive supplier of LTE chips to Apple for 3 years.
In other words, Intel took a majority share of the order Qualcomm from Apple. This corresponded to an analyst report from CLSA Securities, Srini Pajuri earlier, a call that Intel had "significant portion" of the LTE chip orders.
Intel reportedly deployed more than 1,000 employees to prepare the 7360 LTE modem chip that will be used in the iPhone 7.
Theoretically, this modem chip can generate downlink speeds of up to 450 Mbps, 100 Mbps uplink, and supports LTE category 10 and 29 LTE bands.
For comparison, the LTE modem that is embedded in the iPhone 6S currently has a maximum speed of 300 Mbps, two times higher than the iPhone 6 earlier.