Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports::Apple’s “spectacular failure” to build a modem chip for its new iPhones was the topic of a Wall Street Journal expose Wednesday.
Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports::Apple’s “spectacular failure” to build a modem chip for its new iPhones was the topic of a Wall Street Journal expose Wednesday.
I wonder what the takeaway was? They successfully designed processors with the m1 & bionic chips, so super curious what blocked them here. Are modems harder to design than processors? Maybe it’s the RF part?
I heard somewhere they ran into tons of patent issues
It sounds like there was a big issues organizationally. I’m dealing with very similar issues where I’m at. For my stuff, the tech is easy, but we can’t get anything done because of poor management and project management. As the tech gets harder, those organizational issues are going to make things even worse.
I’m surprised this kind of issue isn’t impacting all their products. It seems hard to believe that it’s localized to one project.
If someone patents the wheel, it’s very hard to make a car.