Updated 11/17/17: A new report from KGI details several improvements to cellular connectivity.
It’s not enough that the new iPhone X is only a few days old; rumors about next year’s iPhone are already starting to fly. We’ll keep track of what’s been said and what seems fesible in this article so you can keep up with the latest iPhone gossip.
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KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, always on top of the latest Apple supply chain gossip, says that we'll see much improved cellular baseband chips in next year's iPhones. It will again source chips from both Intel and Qualcomm, but most phones (70-80%) will sport the Intel chip, specifically an Intel XMM 7560 modem. The Qualcomm modem is expected to be the Snapdragon X20.