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Maybe loss of Qualcomm's proprietary air interface standards as significant components of future cellular standards? The risk to Qualcomm is massive, maybe more
by tmzt 9y ago
Maybe loss of Qualcomm's proprietary air interface standards as significant components of future cellular standards? The risk to Qualcomm is massive, maybe more so that the revenue from their own chips.
Apple is in a strong position to move to a horizontally integrated AP/BP model for mobile, either with ARM cores and their A8/A10 SoCs or even moving to something like RISC-V.
Now add an RF frontend and DSP cores and you could implement 5G or smallsat connectivity for the price of the RAND IP license.
Then replace the OLED with microled/qdot pixels with Primesense sensors integrated and you can even eliminate the "slot".