iPhone 17 will have Apple's Wi-Fi 7 chip and Bluetooth: details are out

The iPhone 17 presentation will traditionally take place in September next year, but the company is already actively working on developments. The iPhone 17 prototype is already being tested, according to those with access to insider information.

Also, a new report by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that Apple is planning to introduce its own Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip in the iPhone 17 line. The company wants to reduce dependence on third-party suppliers.

Broadcom currently supplies Apple with more than 300 million chips per year. According to Kuo, Apple intends to switch all its gadgets to internal chips over the next three years. This will significantly reduce costs and strengthen the company's ecosystem.

Apple's new chip, which will be manufactured using TSMC's N7 technology, will support Wi-Fi 7 and integrate Bluetooth and, probably, 5G functions.

The new 5G chip will appear not only in the iPhone 17 but also in the iPhone SE 4 and iPhone 17 Air models. These will be really large-scale changes, indicating Apple's readiness to switch to its own communication technologies.

Experts say that the new chips will be separate, so 5G can be implemented only in certain models, while Wi-Fi chips will be more widely used.

Thus, with new products in 2H25 (e.g., iPhone 17), Apple plans to use its own Wi-Fi chips, which will be manufactured using TSMC's N7 process and support the latest Wi-Fi 7 specification.

Earlier it became known that Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn is conducting early development of the base model iPhone 17 at a plant in Bangalore, India. The company wants to start developing new smartphones as early as possible at factories located closer to the final assembly site. In the long run, this may lead to lower operating costs.

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