Upgraded Qualcomm Incorporated stock to a "Buy" with a fair value of $185 per share, driven by the launch of the X85 modem and recent stock sell-off. The X85 modem, launched on March 3 ...

Apple may be having another M1 moment – the new Apple silicon, the C1 modem in this case, is beating the silicon it came to replace, Qualcomm’s 5G modem, at least in some metrics. Ookla ...

Apple spent many years developing the technology behind its new C1 modem. But before the iPhone 16e’s launch, expectations were that Apple’s C1 would trail Qualcomm’s own 5G modem—at least ...

The iPhone 16e includes Apple's first custom-designed C1 modem, and since it's a new chip category for Apple, there have been questions about how the C1 measures up to the Qualcomm modems that ...

Qualcomm just announced its latest premium mobile ... The new chip comes with an integrated Snapdragon X75 5G modem with peak download speeds of 4.2Gbps though it only supports sub-6GHz spectrum ...

Apple’s development of its modem chips also poses a threat to Qualcomm. The recently launched entry-level iPhone 16e features an Apple-designed modem, the Apple C1, replacing Qualcomm’s chipsets.

The C1 is Apple’s first in-house modem to appear inside an iPhone, ditching the company’s total reliance on Qualcomm. However, there were also concerns about whether this modem is competitive.

Because of this, Apple has decided to keep Qualcomm’s modems in the iPhone 17 Pro series. However, Apple appears confident in its upcoming C2 modem, which could make its way into the iPhone 18 ...

Ookla, the developer of Speedtest, a web service that measures Internet communication speeds, compared the performance of the C1 with that of Qualcomm's 5G modem, revealing the superior ...

Qualcomm also stated that the phone will bring a 5G modem with peak download speeds of 4.2 gigabytes per second, although it appears to lack mmWave support. While we don’t have any word on which ...