Apple is in advanced negotiations to acquire the patents for Intel's 5G section. It is speculated that it could be to have access to the patents of this technology.
5G is a very important future technology in the United States, where it is speculated that having the first network of this technology at a massive commercial level can bring in hundreds of millions of dollars a year. That is why everyone tries to take a good part of the cake, but Apple does not have it too easy since it does not finish entering the sector effectively.
For a long time, it has been said that Apple would want to buy a 5G division to avoid having to face patents, as it could be due to a past litigation with Qualcomm. Now the news has returned and there has been long progress on this purchase after Intel failed to sell its patents to another company with which it had negotiated.
Apple wants to enter the patent war
Now patents are a necessary field for the least of a mobile, and 5G is a huge, very broad field that requires patent permits. This portfolio of patents would serve Apple a lot to prepare for other trials, as it is expected that there will be movement with a pending trial by Huawei. The patent war is something that moved a lot five years ago with smartphone companies denouncing themselves for practically everything, now it has evolved and now it is done for specific reasons of 5G, not so much for general reasons of smartphones.
A smartphone can work with 4G, since 5G networks do not yet have a very large deployment, yet having advantages in the future would ensure that a company's mobile phones would be one of the few that could with this technology. It is not something trivial since affordable mobile phones with 5G would be the holy grail, but with Apple nothing comes close to a cheap price and they would use it so that other companies would not use it.
Source VentureBeat
