Al-Ittihad Newspaper – Apple has stopped supplying chips for its Qualcomm phones in 2018

The American semiconductor company Qualcomm has refused to provide the chips that Apple produced in its iPhone smartphones last year, confirmed Monday Apple's chief operating officer, Jeff Williams. "Filed a complaint in 2017 due to a dispute over the intellectual property rights of certain techniques.

Williams' testimony before the US Federal Trade Commission, which examines Apple's complaint against Qualcomm, revealed that Apple had forced Apple to use Intel products exclusively on iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max phones. "And the iPhone XR, which were launched in September and October.

Williams said his company had tried to negotiate with Qualcomm to provide chips for its latest phones, but Qualcomm had refused.

In October, Qualcomm said it had already tested chipsets and modems that could have been used on new iPhones. "We are committed to supporting new Apple devices consistently, as well as all other companies in the industry this time.

Apple executives said earlier in the day that their company would prefer to diversify sources of access to components used by its suppliers in its products. They said that several sources of chips allowed Apple to reduce costs, but at the same time had an emergency plan to deal with a single supplier.