Apple presented its first internal cellular modem, C1, last week with the announcement, and although it did not have too many details, the company would have major projects for future iterations. According to ‘S Mark Gurman, “Apple intends to merge the modern component into the main processor.” The integration of the modem into the main processor could have advantages of energy and cost, but this design is still far away. We will probably see the C2 and C3 without it, that the company already tests according to Gurman, and the integrated design will not follow before “2028 at the earliest
During its unveiling, Apple described the new C1 Modem “Modem the most economical in power of all time in an iPhone”. The iphone 16th of $ 599 also has an A18 chip (but with four GPU cores) and supports Apple Intelligence, even if this is not the case.
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