Rumors that the iPhone 16E already has a separate apple Bluetooth and/or Wlan chip, this is not clearly true. As part of the presentation of the new entry-level iPhone, Apple did not give any information about the field, instead first mentioned his own modem Chip C1 and later also brought journalists to his laboratories. Apparently the iPhone 17 will be the first smartphone of the group which has a Wi-Fi-7 chip integrated from Apple. It has been claimed by Jeff Pu, well known from GF Securities from Hong Kong, which focuses on the manufacturer’s supply chain. Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities recently estimated that Apple has established its Wlan technology in the iPhone 17.
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IPhone 16e without Wi-Fi 7
What is especially in the iPhone 16E in terms of Wlan, is currently unclear. However, the device does not master the current Wi -7 standard, instead Only Wi-Fi 6 (802.11x) with 2×2 mimoIt is comprehensible that Apple installs an old chip of Broadcom. Bluetooth is supported in 16e, such as iPhone 16 and 16 per version 5.3. The basic idea of Apple should be to combine the modem and WiFi/Bluetooth chip in a system-on-chip to reduce the number of components. However, it did not succeed – even at the iPhone 17, is now expected to have different components.
According to Pu, Apple iPhone will integrate the standard and “air” variant, 17 Pro and 17 per maximum-Fi 7 “made by Apple” in 17-17. In iPhone 16, all models from 2024–16, 16 plus, 16 per and 16 per maximum-Fi 7, perhaps support a broadcom chips. What benefits can be an apple wlan module is still not clear. For the group, this means that being less dependent on suppliers, he can also bind hardware close to his own software and, if necessary, react faster with new standards.
Hope for MacBook 5G
This would be very exciting for users if all the features descend into the same chip, which would then be installed in MacBook. Eventually, even a combination of radio modem, WLAN/Bluetooth and CPU and GPU will be comprehensible, even if it brings technical challenges.
Users have been dreaming of 5G Macos computers over years, but Apple does not present it, which you have to use the iPhone as a hotspot. With increasing integration, it will be very easy for Apple. There have been radio modets in iPad for years.
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