Though it’s something everybody wants, a move to Verizon looks even more unlikely with these facts brought up:

That means Apple would have to switch or supplement chip providers, which would be difficult given Apple’s penchant for secrecy, and how closely the company reportedly has worked with Infineon. Infineon could develop its own CDMA chips, but Qualcomm owns an enormous number of patents related to CDMA (which it invented), and it would be a complex, long-term, but doable project for Infineon to obtain the rights. That all makes it unlikely in the short run.

Infineon also has one software-defined product, where software can reshape the radio standards supported in the chip, but CDMA isn’t on the list of supported standards.

It’s something that should be in the pipeline in a few years, but not as soon as 2010 like many people speculate.

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