DrMrLordX
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You could port the *Chipset* to TSMC, not the Modem, not at this stage of the development cycle. Porting a Modem to a different Fab or Node is about as much work as porting an CPU, if not harder for 5G.
I doubt Intel would have made the early announcement of 8160 if they were unsure of its 10nm by mid 2020.
So, do we know if Intel is fabbing those modems on their 10nm process? Is the TSMC news just a rumour? I'm getting a little confused here.
And unless Apple have been working on their own 5G Baseband in the past few years, I doubt they will have anything to show in 2021 or 2022.
There's rumours that they are, but that all stems from a job posting of theirs from late 2018.