Stefan Mileschin

Intel can make it

Intel has canceled its 8060 5G modem to speed up things with its new all mode XMM 8160 solution. Intel should sample the 8160 modem later this year which should be more than enough time for Apple to incorporate it in the iPhone 2020 (iPhone 20 anyone?).
iPhone 20-20 is 5G

Some financial analysts were expecting that Apple might be late even for 2020 with its 5G modem, but to our best knowledge, things are on schedule. Apple could not incorporate 5G in the 2019 iPhones merely as they didn’t make a deal with Qualcomm.

Qualcomm managed to accelerate the 5G NR modem deployment and 3GPP Cat 18 and commercial launches of both infrastructure and OEM devices by a whole year. Intel could not follow that pace and had no chance to compete on a square level in 2019. Therefore they just had to put all the effort in 2020 XMM 8160 solution.

Other reports that MediaTek and Samsung might step up for Apple are bogus, 5G modem, RF frontends and especially millimeter wave antennas are not a shirt button that can change in a heartbeat. It takes years to make this work.

https://fudzilla.com/news/mobile/484...one-5g-is-2020