Apple-Qualcomm breakup may mean slower iPhones with Intel chips

Apple's long and contentious fight with Qualcomm could have reached its climax on Wednesday, while Qualcomm's CFO announced that Apple will no longer use its modems for future iPhones in a winning call.

The Apple-Qualcomm fight centered around Apple's dissatisfaction with paying up to $ 30 in royalties to Qualcomm for each iPhone sold. Apple soon began working with Intel to develop new modems – some of which were used in the iPhone 7 – from 2015. In January last year, Apple sued Qualcomm, alleging that royalties amounted to extortion and stopped paying royalties. "We believe that Apple intends to only use our competitors' modems rather than our modems in its next version of the iPhone," said Davis, according to CNET

. Another Qualcomm executive said during the earnings call "if the opportunity arises" Qualcomm will again become Apple's supplier, according to CNET.

Apple's break from Qualcomm could mean slower iPhones compared to its Android counterparts, phones using Qualcomm chips that outperformed phones using its competitors. According to a study published by Ookla, a Seattle-based Internet badytics and testing company, Android phones powered by the latest Snapdragon 845 from Qualcomm would work significantly. faster than non-Android phones powered by Intel XMM chips 7480 and 7360 on different cellular media. According to ZDNet, the study has conducted more than a million Internet speed tests to reduce possible biases.

In AT & T and T-Mobile phones, Android phones with Qualcomm chips downloaded data at least 60% faster. Qualcomm said in a press release that the Ookla test has proven that "real-world data supports Qualcomm Technologies' claims of superior wireless performance."

In a counter-expertise of Qualcomm against Apple last April, Qualcomm alleged that Apple was limiting data speeds in iPhone 7 models with Qualcomm chips to match slower iPhones to Intel chips .