FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2018, file photo the Intel logo appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square. Apple is paying Intel $1 billion for the chip maker's smartphone modem ...

Apple just announced that it has acquired most of Intel’s smartphone modem business for $1 billion. As part of the deal, 2,200 Intel employees will become Apple employees, and Apple will gain some ...

Intel CEO Bob Swan in a Wednesday interview explained the reasoning behind selling his company's smartphone modem assets to Apple, saying the exclusive nature of its relationship with the iPhone maker ...

Back in April, Apple announced that it would cease all litigation against chip manufacturer Qualcomm and enter a new partnership with the company that will see Qualcomm modems installed in new crops ...

Intel CEO Bob Swan says his company decided to bail out off the phone modem business because these products had too few customers to make much money. Apple is the primary buyer of Intel modems, and ...

New chips are announced all the time, and while some turn out to be critical components in hot products, few are as important as Intel's upcoming XMM 8160-- the chipmaker's second 5G modem. The ...

Intel has just unveiled its very first 5G modem with the new Intel 5G Solution 5000, a new 5G modem through its partnership with MediaTek and Fibocom. The company announced the news during its ...

Wall Street Journal headline aside, Apple’s interest in acquiring Intel’s 5G modem business is not really news at this point. The possibility of a deal was widely reported immediately after Intel ...