The new iPhone 16e contains Apple’s first custom cellular modem dubbed “C1.” And Apple plans on integrating future modems within the main chipset of the device, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
This will take a few years, but when it happens, the A series of chips (and perhaps the M series, if Apple ever gives us a MacBook with built-in cellular) with a separate C-series modem.
Gurman predicts that we’ll see the C2 modem in “higher-end iPhones” in 2026, and that a “C3” will follow in 2027.
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