Apple to leapfrog 5G for 6G in race to make its own iPhone modem and ditch Qualcomm for good
Apple has been working to bring its own 5G modem to the iPhone for years, and its struggles to do exactly that are among one of Silicon Valley's worst-kept secrets at this point. But a new report suggests that Apple intends to look beyond 5G sooner rather than later, leaning into future 6G connectivity long before it's ever likely to put the advanced networking feature into a future iPhone.Apple has been working to design its own 5G modem hardware ever since it bought Intel's modem business back in 2019. It paid a cool…