The iPhone 17 and other late 2025 Apple devices will feature the company’s own Wi-Fi 7 chips as part of a longterm move away from third-party suppliers.
It’s long been documented that Apple is working to replace Qualcomm’s 5G modems with its own design, but now a new report says it’s doing the same with Wi-Fi. Previously, it was rumored that Apple was aiming to drop Broadcom’s Wi-Fi processors, but now analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says it will happen with the iPhone 17.
Broadcom currently supplies over 300 million Wi-Fi+BT chips (hereafter referred to as Wi-Fi chips) per year to Apple. However, Apple will rapidly reduce its reliance on Broadcom. With new products in 2H25 (e.g., iPhone 17), Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi chips, which will be
— (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) October 31, 2024
Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible
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