New Apple iPhone to Run on Qualcomm Processors

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Although working intensively with phone manufacturers HTC, Samsung and LG, chip maker Qualcomm are trying to expand their market share in the high-end sector. Aiming for more future collaborations, “according to market sources” the company has been in talks with Apple to better the new iPhone which is supposedly going to use Qualcomm’s 3G solutions.

Coming from the Taiwanese trade publication Digi Times (see link at the end of the article), the rumor is yet to confirm, but given the fact that none of the popular smartphones, which include the iPhone, RIM’s BlackBerry or Palm’s Pre, work on Qualcomm processors, but on Infineon, Freescale and  respectively Marvell hardware, it certainly makes sense.

If rumors turn out to be true, the CDMA/GSM iPhone should be working on a new hybrid chip that would bring both AT&T and Verizon Wireless compatibility — something that would probably propelthe iPhone even higher in the ranks. And with more and more reports suggesting that Big Red is going to get the iPhone next year, a Qualcomm-powered iPhone may not be that far away.