Jakarta (ANTARA) – Apple reportedly postponed internal development for chip specifically WiFi made after previously reported to be preparing for development chip to be produced independently and not depend on other suppliers.
“A recent survey I conducted for the semiconductor industry indicates that Apple is delaying development chip His Wi-Fi for a while,” said Ming-Chi Kuo through his writing on medium.com quoted, Friday.
There are several reasons for the delay, including investors’ concerns about business stability chip Wi-Fi to start shifting trends in the market.
From an investor perspective, according to Ming-Chi Kuo, investors are worried about development chip Apple’s Wi-Fi could impact its competitor’s business, Broadcom, which currently dominates the market chip Wi-Fi.
In addition, from a design point of view, the delay was due to Apple only developing chip Wi-Fi specifically only, hence the dependence on chip Bluetooth from other suppliers will still happen.
Maybe Apple is better off changing its development focus to chip combo that includes chip Wi-Fi as well Bluetooth if development resumes.
It actually makes more sense, because according to the analyst at this time only types chip the combo becomes chip which Apple uses the most instead chip Wi-Fi saja.
The delay may also be related to Apple’s new goal, which seems to want to develop a newer processor that can significantly increase performance and power consumption efficiency.
With these objectives, research resources for development chip Wi-Fi has finally switched over for the processor project.
It is estimated that the development of the processor will take place this year and will be mass produced no later than 2025.
As a step to meet the needs chip Wi-Fi therefore Apple will still need Broadcom to meet its needs, including the iPhone 15 series.
As for chip The Wi-Fi to be used is allegedly in the form of chip Wi-Fi 6E atau Wi-Fi 7.