# Apple and Qualcomm settle their modem litigation

Date: 2019

## The fact

On 16 April 2019 Apple and Qualcomm settled multi-year modem litigation, a completed IP-and-supply instrument under [Cook](/people/tim-cook) that also cleared iPhone 5G paths.

## Context

Neighbouring Intel modem exit is a neighbouring firm. Neighbouring M1 is later Apple silicon. He did not write a USPTO grant.

M1 2020 is neighbouring later silicon. China production remains assembly geography.

Tim Cook has been Apple CEO since 24 August 2011. He does not write a DOJ complaint, a Commission DMA decision, an Irish Finance Act, or a Chinese Cyberspace Administration rule. Steve Jobs is a different, dead person. A product launch is not a labour statute. A privacy keynote is not a completed DMA compliance certificate. Keep those dates separate. A 10-K climate page is not a unique ppm. An assembler audit is not a unique suicide count as his personal tally. A DMA listing is not a completed sideload world. A DOJ complaint is not a breakup. TSMC fabricates; Foxconn assembles; App Review enforces.

## Evidence and sources

Apple carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

A settlement is not a unique SAR coefficient.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 16 April 2019 Apple–Qualcomm settlement, independently reported.

Not established: that 5G coverage equalised, or a unique later royalty coefficient from the term sheet.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Qualcomm settled. Courts dismissed. Intel later left the phone-modem business as a neighbouring firm.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Apple and Qualcomm settle their modem litigation, not a later speech about Apple and Qualcomm settle their modem litigation.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Apple and Qualcomm settle their modem litigation on 2019-04-16 is not a licence to treat every later Apple communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Apple and Qualcomm settle their modem litigation into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He settled as CEO. Qualcomm settled. Courts dismissed. Intel later left the phone-modem business as a neighbouring firm. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tim Cook: https://factrail.ai/people/tim-cook

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-qualcomm-idUSKCN1RS0K4
- https://www.apple.com/newsroom/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/aapl-qualcomm-2019