Van Nest, an attorney representing Qualcomm in the case, also sought to show that Qualcomm is not dominant in the world's two biggest handset makers.
During opening arguments, Van Nest's presentation said that Huawei [HWT.UL] internally sources 54 percent of the modem chips it puts in its devices and gets only 22 percent of its modems from Qualcomm, with the remainder coming from other unnamed makers. Samsung internally sources 52 percent of the modem chips it uses, with 38 percent from Qualcomm and the rest from other makers, according to the presentation.
From: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-tech/samsung-huawei-supply-majority-of-own-modem-chips-qualcomm-says-idUSKCN1OZ00F
What's Apple excuse for not having their own modem despite having infinite resources? Don't they dream about being vertically integrated? We've been told they're developing their own 5G modem, but we've been told they've been trying to develop their own modem for years. Truth is that they are the most technically incompetent FAANG. They develop excellent HW but cannot develop decent SW. They knew they couldn't develop decent OS, so they ripped off BSD to make Macos. IOS is just a stripped Macos. Siri does not compare to Alexa or Google Assistant. They are still using AWS and Google Cloud, which is embarrassing for a company their size. Their OS does not work well with third party HW.
They have no hope in developing a decent modem, which is all SW. I suspect the Qcom engineers leaving for Apple will have a worse time there.