Apple said it had «no choice» but to stop using some chips from Intel Corp in iPhones headed to Germany in order to comply with a patent infringement lawsuit.
Apple said Thursday that it will resume selling older iPhone models in its stores in Germany after they were banned last year, but only with chips from Qualcomm, which is in a global legal battle against the Cupertino company.
Apple said it had «no choice» but to stop using some chips from Intel in iPhones headed to Germany in order to comply with a patent infringement lawsuit Qualcomm won against Apple there in December.
Qualcomm, the world’s biggest supplier of mobile chips, sued Apple in Germany alleging that some older iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 models violated Qualcomm patents around so-called envelope tracking, a feature that helps mobile phones save battery power while sending and receiving wireless signals.
