Phone 17 5G modems will be made by MediaTek, as Apple moves away from Qualcomm. Future iPhones will use Apple's solutions instead.

At the heart of the system, the C1 (Cellular 1) chip first appears in the iPhone 16e. It is also expected to debut in other Apple devices in the coming months and will likely see use across all or most of the iPhone range by this time next year. Apple calls it “the most power efficient modem ever in an iPhone.”

Apple's first custom-designed modem chip, the C1, has finally made its debut in the iPhone 16e, which Apple announced on Wednesday. It's

Apple new iPhone 16E with Apple Intelligence and Apple's first in-house 5G modem is now available to preorder.

Apple seems to have opened the door to annual cheap iPhone updates with the iPhone 16e, and I really hope it takes that opportunity rather than keeping with its past inconsistent launches.