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Thanks, Apple: Intel will auction off smartphone modem patents, exit industry
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 of iPhones.
On that same day, Intel announced it was exiting the smartphone modem business entirely. Now, according to IAM, Intel is going one step further and auctioning off many of its smartphone modem assets.
This information appears to suggest that without Apple as a partner, Intel has no need for its patents surrounding smartphone modems at all.
According to IAM, the Intel auction will see some 8,500 patents up for sale to the highest bidder.
Also at Tom's Hardware and Wccftech.
Previously: Apple Could Switch From Qualcomm to Intel and MediaTek for Modems
Intel Speeds Up Rollout of 5G Modems
A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple?
Apple's Internal Hardware Team is Working on Modems Now
Intel and Qualcomm Announce 5G Modem Modules for M.2 Slots
Intel Quits 5G Modem Business Hours after Apple Settles with Qualcomm
Qualcomm Will Pocket Almost $5 Billion from Apple Settlement this Quarter
How Qualcomm Shook Down the Cell Phone Industry for Almost 20 Years
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Friday June 28 2019, @05:48AM (4 children)
I mean, if Billion $$$ Intel can't make money off them then how valuable can they be? Outside of the ol' "you slap yours on the table, I'll slap mine on the table, we'll see who's is bigger and go from there".
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Friday June 28 2019, @08:45AM (3 children)
The article forgot to finish the sentence with "provided that bidder isn't Huawei", because, you know, we can't stop kicking Huawei. Heck, we've gone nearly two days now without a "look how evil Huawei" is story, we've got to do something!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @09:06AM (2 children)
Huawei is already far advanced to the point the Intel realized they cannot catch. This is the reason for sellout.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @01:21PM (1 child)
Intel should donate the patents to Apache foundation.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Friday June 28 2019, @04:47PM
If they auctioned then off separately I would buy up a stupid one and either make it public or put it on my resume as being a patent owner. Or both somehow.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @06:10AM
huh? is this another itanic moment for intel or check mate for qualcom, now in a position to be treatend by being a monopoly?
if so, smart move intel: the only way to win is not to play?
and see the field of monoculture communication chips waiting for that one bug to take 'em all out... in one massive proverbial conflageration.