The iPhone 17 coming in fall 2025 will use an Apple-designed Wi-Fi 7 chip, based on famend Apple provide chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
The chip will change the Broadcom chip that Apple presently makes use of for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Apple’s Wi-Fi 7 chip shall be constructed utilizing TSMC’s 7nm course of. Apple apparently needs to maneuver “practically all” of its merchandise to its personal Wi-Fi chip inside about three years, with a view to lower provide prices and rake in additional earnings.
Apple can also be engaged on its personal 5G chip, which shall be separate from the Wi-Fi one and constructed utilizing a unique TSMC course of expertise. This may also begin for use regularly from subsequent 12 months onwards. The primary product to return with Apple’s personal 5G modem shall be the subsequent iPhone SE. This may nevertheless nonetheless use a Broadcom Wi-Fi chip.
