Bloomberg is reporting that Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs has admitted that his company and Apple are in negotiations to bring Qualcomm chips to iPhone.
“We continue to discuss it, but haven’t made it yet,” Jacobs said in a Bloomberg Television interview in Hong Kong today. “Hopefully, in the future, we will have the opportunity.”
This statement is very unclear, and may not indicate Apple will use Qualcomm chips, and it may just be Qualcomm fishing for any business they can drum up.
A fact worth noting is that Qualcomm is the company behind the CDMA2000 3G technologies used by Sprint and Verizon to run their wireless networks. This of course, spurs the notion that Apple is looking into brining the iPhone to Verizon. The catch here is, CDMA2000 is being phased out in favor of LTE 4G technologies, which makes it unlikely Apple will be able to create a CDMA2000 compatible iPhone before the technology reaches obsoleteness.
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