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Pretty sure a company with nearly a $3 TRILLON dollar market cap can afford to spend a few billion just trying things for kicks if they want. It doesn’t make it a failure, it makes it R&D.
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
If someone patents the wheel, it's very hard to make a car.
Highly recommend reading daringfireball.net’s takedown of this nonsense
Qualcomm be like:
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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