Affected by this news, Apple shares fell, while Qualcomm shares rose.
Many people are surprised. Obviously, it is the largest technology company in the world. How did the rich and powerful Apple fail?
In response to this question, some foreign media have given the answer a few days ago. The reason is not that Apple's R&D technology is not good, but that Apple can't get around the legal restrictions of Qualcomm's patent and is stuck in Qualcomm's neck.
Prior to this, in order to design its own communication baseband chip, Apple tried to invalidate two Qualcomm communication patents by American courts through appeal.
But on June 27th, the US Supreme Court rejected Apple's appeal.
In other words, these two patents still belong to Qualcomm, and if Apple wants to continue to develop 5G baseband chips, it must pay high patent fees to Qualcomm. Because these two Qualcomm patents are stuck in the front, it will be very difficult for Apple to develop 5G baseband chips.
For this reason, Apple wants to use its own 5G baseband chip, either to solve the patent problem at the legal level or to find another way to bypass Qualcomm's 5G patent system. But due to the objective reality of the market and industrial chain, this is impossible.
So it may still be a distant thing for everyone to see Apple's self-developed baseband chip.