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The announcement of the iPhone, presumably, to save people a google.

I thought nvidia did release phones?

Before the iPhone, multi-media phones had the modem as main chip with a companion chip that did GPU, video decoding etc.

With the iPhone, an SOC took center stage and the modem became secondary.

This is an interesting take.

Is there some place I could read more about this shift?

Thanks in advance!

The chance is high that you are reading this on a phone via a wifi connection right now. No (GSM) modem involved here.

Huh? I don't think that's true for Windows Mobile 5 and earlier devices.

Windows 5 phones were a tiny niche. I don’t know what kind of architecture they used. But the general multimedia phone was still based on modem chip plus companion chip.

After the iPhone announcement, everybody realized that this model was a thing of the past. iPhone like phones were the future.

The companion chip market died that day, and the whole industry switched to developing only SOC models.

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