Coming soon iPhone 5g

iPhone surprises will not end, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who is the owner of the most famous and accurate leaks regarding Apple products, said that the 2020 version of the iPhone "iPhone" phone may support 5G networks, and is expected to have a significant impact on sales.

“We believe that uncertainty has been removed after the patent dispute between Apple and Qualcomm concluded and entered into a six-year licensing deal, and Intel announced its exit from the 5G chip business,” Kuo wrote in a note to investors.

It is expected that Apple - along with Qualcomm - will rely on its competitor in the market, Samsung, to provide each of them with equipment that varies according to each market of the fifth generation 5G networks. With Intel's eventual exit from the smartphone modem chip market, Huawei's statement that it is ready to provide Apple with 5G modems is believed to be nothing more than a "PR" move by the Chinese company.

Kuo expects 5G modems to increase iPhone sales from 188 to 192 million in 2019, and then from 195 to 200 million by 2020. Between 70 and 75 million of those sales in 2020 are expected to be in the second half of this year. 2020, after the launch of the iPhone 5G phone.

It is noteworthy that this expected increase during 2019 and 2020 is still below the sales achieved by iPhone phones in 2015, when the company sold 231.2 million units. The company then sold 211.8 million units, 216.8 million units, and 217.7 million units, in the following years: 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively.

Regarding the iPhone 5G as well, the Taiwanese semiconductor maker TSMC has also developed a 5nm design infrastructure, which can be used for future chips that could be seen in the 2020 release. Previous speculation had indicated that it could be used in processors. A14 for iPhone 14 devices.