Apple sees 6G as strategically important to its future
Computerworld December 4, 2023
The hope is that Apple can maintain tighter integration between future 6G modems and its own hardware — and have a far better negotiating position with modem makers.
Apple has thousands of engineers within its silicon development teams working on a range of projects, including processors, graphics chips and, of course, modems.
And while the modem development work is clearly slower than expected, at Apple the end of some projects is not always the beginning and that is why it is now focusing on the next big networking standard, 6G.
Apple’s been saying/not saying this for some time, via its usual outlets of speculation, rumor, and media proxies. It leaves a lot of what we think we know sitting firmly...