Qualcomm-Funded Study Finds Qualcomm's Modems Outperform Apple's C1 Chip in Real-World Tests (yahoo.com)
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- Source link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/qualcomm-backed-study-finds-apple-170854455.html
The performance gap widened when networks were congested or devices operated farther from cell towers -- precisely the scenarios where next-generation modems should excel, according to the report. The iPhone 16e became "noticeably hot to touch and exhibited aggressive screen dimming within just two-minute test intervals" during testing. This study arrives as Apple attempts to reduce its dependence on Qualcomm, which has historically provided modems for the entire iPhone lineup and represents roughly 20% of Qualcomm's revenue.
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Man bites dog vs dog bites man (Score:4, Informative)
A Qualcomm-commissioned study found that Apple's C1 modem underperformed compared to Qualcomm-powered devices
"We commissioned a study, and, wouldn't you know it, our device was better than our competitors"
The real newsworthy item would be if they had commissioned a study that showed they had been beaten by their competitor
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For sure that's accurate, Qualcomm has been in the modem business for what, like 40 years now? Maybe longer? They should be putting up big numbers.
I am sure they see the writing on the wall, only another generation or two of Apple using it's in-house modems and Apple as a customer is done with Qualcomm forever.
I would see it as inevitable, Apple rarely goes back on vertical integration but I suppose this is to keep certain customers aware and Apple not so comfortable making that switch in their high end dev
Honestly they are probably right (Score:2)
Qualcomm has been pretty far ahead of everyone on modem performance for both power consumption and signal quality.
It's hard for any company to catch up because Qualcomm does the same thing Nvidia does where they monopolize the engineers capable of building the hardware they specialize in by paying those engineers ludicrous amounts of money.
And the work is so specialized and complex and difficult that they're just aren't a lot of engineers that can do it well enough to compete.
Apple has the deep
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I'm sure they did the same thing with Intel models, as we all know how that turned out. Apple tried them, Qualcomm said theirs were better. Apple went back to Qualcomm because Intel modems were bad.
Makes sense for Apple to try their new modems in their cheapest products.
They tried Intel modems in only a small subset of their products.
bias (Score:4, Funny)
Thank God I was born yesterday, and thus can place my full trust in this.
Duh! Of course. (Score:2)
Qualcomm has been going at it for years in modem Land. Infineon tried to get those 5G modems of the ground, couln's, solt to intel, Intel could'nt either, intel sold to apple.
Apple finaly gets the 5G modems of the ground, they underperform? Of course! Do apple modems have to be the very best? Of course not!
As long as in a few iterations the modems become good enough, will be goos enough for apple...
They have some unique potential (Score:1)
One interesting possibility Apple's chip has that Qualcomm does not, is that it could do things like lean on the AI chip for additional help processing the incoming signal, or any other hardware in the phone.
I also figured that the first try from Apple would not be quite as good, it will be interesting to see how fast iterations improve.
In other news... (Score:3)
Trump Department of Justice issues legal opinion that all Trump Executive Orders are Legal and Constitutional.
I don't know about the performance (Score:2)
But I switched from a Media tek based phone to a Qualcomm Snapdragon x75 modem based phone specifically for the better modem. Cost me $550 for the phone which sucked but I have to admit it did solve the problems I had with dropped calls or hell sometimes just not even getting the call in the first place. Text messages work a lot better too.
Now to be fair I'm stuck on T-Mobile (I'm on an old plan with a good price and if I switch to another carrier I'm going to be paying an extra $600 or $700 a year) but
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What you want is a low resolution LCD.
The higher the pixel density of an LCD, the more powerful the back light needs to be. Only fraction of the light makes it past the transistors and wiring in the LCD panel.
Try turning down the brightness and/or using dark mode.
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Yeah if I turn down the brightness it helps the battery life but it also makes the screen look like crap and be hard to read. Especially in sunlight.
And yeah the higher density is probably a big part of the problem too. Why in God's good name I need to have a 4K display on my 5-in screen is beyond me but here we are...
While I'm complaining about unnecessary features my phone weighs a ton because it has a heavy metal back that adds nothing (you could easily get better radio reception by running a sma