iPhone 17 Pro Max Teardown Reveals Qualcomm's Snapdragon X80 Modem for 5G

While the iPhone Air is equipped with Apple's customized C1X modem for cellular connectivity, each of the iPhone 17 models are outfitted with Qualcomm modems still.


A teardown video shared connected Chinese level Bilibili contiguous (via Reddit) appears to corroborate the iPhone 17 Pro Max is equipped with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X80 modem successful particular. The aforesaid modem is apt utilized successful the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro.

Qualcomm says the Snapdragon X80 contains AI accelerator hardware that intelligently enhances cellular information speeds, latency, coverage, and powerfulness efficiency.

In addition, the Snapdragon X80 modem supports mmWave 5G, which is disposable connected iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max models sold successful the U.S. only. Apple's C1 modem successful the iPhone 16e and C1X modem successful the iPhone Air are constricted to sub-6GHz 5G.

mmWave is simply a acceptable of 5G frequencies that committedness ultra-fast speeds astatine abbreviated distances, which is perfect for dense municipality areas. By comparison, sub-6GHz 5G is mostly slower than mmWave, but the signals question further, amended serving suburban and agrarian areas.

iPhone 18 Pro models are expected to usage Apple's customized C2 modem, with mmWave 5G support, arsenic Apple continues to signifier retired Qualcomm modems.

We are inactive waiting for Snapdragon X80 vs. C1X velocity tests.
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